The African Speech Technology project: An assessment

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 93-96

  Roux, J C ^a   Louw, P H ^a   Niesler, T R ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; RESERVATION SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

DATABASE DESIGN; DATABASE MANAGEMENT; HOTEL BOOKING; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; TELEPHONE SPEECH; TELEPHONY INTERFACES; USABILITY TESTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85011972990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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