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Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Retief Louw, Emma Sharratt, Febe de Wet +3
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy. However, teachers in large preschool classrooms struggle to accurately identify stu…
Low-resource keyword spotting using contrastively trained transformer acoustic word embeddings
Julian Herreilers, Christiaan Jacobs, Thomas Niesler
We introduce a new approach, the ContrastiveTransformer, that produces acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) for the purpose of very low-resource keyword spotting. The ContrastiveTransfo…
Speech Recognition for Automatically Assessing Afrikaans and isiXhosa Preschool Oral Narratives
Christiaan Jacobs, Annelien Smith, Daleen Klop +3
We develop automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for stories told by Afrikaans and isiXhosa preschool children. Oral narratives provide a way to assess children's language dev…