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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering

Botha, EC

MIng(Pret) PhD(Carnegie Mellon) - Professor

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Telephone number: 021 888 2547
Fax number: 021 888 2694
E-mail address: liesbeth.botha@eng.up.ac.za

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Pattern recognition and speech technology

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Purnell DW, Botha EC: 2002. Improved generalization of MCE parameter estimation with application to speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 10 (4) / May, pp 232-239.

Nieuwoudt C, Botha EC: 2002. Cross-language use of acoustic information for automation speech recognition. Speech Communication, 38 / Sep, pp 101-103.

van Leeuwen GFVB, Botha EC: 2002. An auto attendant with an Afrikaans conversational interface. Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, 94 (3) / Sep, pp 122-128.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Botha EC: 2002. The African Speech Technology (AST) project for tele-services: Achievements, state of the technology and roadmap. In Proceedings of the IEEE Africon 2002 Conference, IEEE, pp 367-370.

Manamela MJD, Botha EC: 2002. Experience in data collection for the training of an Automatic Speech Recognizer in Sepedi. In Proceedings of the IEEE Africon 2002 Conference, IEEE, pp 377-381.

Thirion JWF, Botha EC: 2002. Recurrent neural network-enhanced (HMM) speech recognition systems. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken language Processing, Causal Productions Pty Ltd, pp 2637-2640.

Brink JD, Botha EC: 2002. A comparison of L1 and African-mother-tongue acoustic models for South African English speech recognition. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP - 2002), Causal Productions Pty Ltd, pp 1241-1244.

Sooful JJ, Botha EC: 2002. Comparison of Acoustic distance measures for automatic cross-language phoneme mapping. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP - 2002), Causal Productions Pty Ltd, pp 521-524.

 

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