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The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages

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dc.contributor.author Kgampe, M
dc.contributor.author Davel, MH
dc.date.accessioned 2012-04-16T16:01:18Z
dc.date.available 2012-04-16T16:01:18Z
dc.date.issued 2011-11
dc.identifier.citation Kgampe, M and Davel, MH. The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages. 22nd Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Emerald Casino and Resort, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 22-25 November 2011 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-620-51914-4
dc.identifier.uri http://www.prasa.org/proceedings/2011/prasa2011-16.pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771
dc.description 22nd Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Emerald Casino and Resort, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 22-25 November 2011 en_US
dc.description.abstract Personal names are often pronounced in very different ways depending on the language background of the speaker. We seek to determine whether some of these pronunciations ‘errors’ are systematic and if so, in which ways. Specifically, we analyze some of the the typical errors made by speakers from four South African languages (Setswana, English, isiZulu) when producing names from the same four languages. We compare these results with the pronunciations generated by four language-specific grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) predictors trained on generic words from the four languages. We find that the G2P predictors are able to predict at least some of the typical errors humans make and, in fact, that these errors are slightly more predictable than the correct pronunciations themselves. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher PRASA en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Workflow;8130
dc.subject South African languages en_US
dc.subject Pronunciation errors en_US
dc.subject Pattern recognition en_US
dc.subject Grapheme-to-phoneme en_US
dc.subject G2P en_US
dc.subject G2P predictors en_US
dc.subject Speech technologies en_US
dc.title The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages en_US
dc.type Conference Presentation en_US
dc.identifier.apacitation Kgampe, M., & Davel, M. (2011). The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages. PRASA. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Kgampe, M, and MH Davel. "The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages." (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Kgampe M, Davel M, The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages; PRASA; 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771 . en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Conference Presentation AU - Kgampe, M AU - Davel, MH AB - Personal names are often pronounced in very different ways depending on the language background of the speaker. We seek to determine whether some of these pronunciations ‘errors’ are systematic and if so, in which ways. Specifically, we analyze some of the the typical errors made by speakers from four South African languages (Setswana, English, isiZulu) when producing names from the same four languages. We compare these results with the pronunciations generated by four language-specific grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) predictors trained on generic words from the four languages. We find that the G2P predictors are able to predict at least some of the typical errors humans make and, in fact, that these errors are slightly more predictable than the correct pronunciations themselves. DA - 2011-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - South African languages KW - Pronunciation errors KW - Pattern recognition KW - Grapheme-to-phoneme KW - G2P KW - G2P predictors KW - Speech technologies LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 978-0-620-51914-4 T1 - The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages TI - The predictability of name pronunciation errors in four South African languages UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5771 ER - en_ZA


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