Woefzela - An open-source platform for ASR data collection in the developing world

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3177-3180

  De Vries, Nic J ^a,b   Badenhorst, Jaco ^a,b   Davel, Marelie H ^b   Barnard, Etienne ^b   De Waal, Alta ^a  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Android; Automatic speech recognition; Developing world; Resource scarce environment; Speech resource collection; Under resourced languages

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DEVELOPING WORLD; RESOURCE-SCARCE ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH RESOURCES;

DATA ACQUISITION; ROBOTS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 84865706565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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