Developing a multilingual telephone based information system in African languages

2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Roux, J C ^a   Botha, E C ^b   Du Preez, J A ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN LANGUAGES; IT FOCUS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPEECH CORPORA;

EID: 84886596580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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