Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been developed only for a very limited number of the estimated 7,000 languages in the world. In order to avoid the evolvement of a ...
As language is fundamental to human activities, proficiency in other languages becomes important. Besides for developing abilities for communication, the knowledge is also a tool f...
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...
Can the speakers of small languages, which may be remote, unwritten, and endangered, be trained to create an archival record of their oral literature, with only limited external su...
This paper describes past, ongoing and planned work on the collection and transcription of spoken language samples for all the South African official languages and as part of this...