Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2006Improving the pronunciations of non-native language learners is an important task in a multilingual society. We focus on segmental aspects of pronunciation, and investigate the design of automated assistants that can be used to improve (1) ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Davel, MHDate:Nov 2007The authors analyse the effect of speech rate variation on Afrikaans phone stability from an acoustic perspective. Specifically they introduce two techniques for the acoustic analysis of speech rate variation, apply these techniques to an ...Read more