An acoustic comparison of the vowels and diphthongs of first-language and African- mother-tongue South African English

An acoustic comparison of the vowels and diphthongs of first-language and African- mother-tongue South African English

Speaker accent influences the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Knowledge of accent based acoustic variations can therefore be used in the develop¬ment of more robust systems. This project investigates the differences between first language (L1) and second language (L2) English...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brink, Janus Daniel
Other Authors: Prof E C Botha
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Forments speech
English language south africa accents
Automatic speech recognition
Phonetics acoustic
UCTD
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29155
Brink, JD 2000, An acoustic comparison of the vowels and diphthongs of first-language and African-mother-tongue South African English, MEng dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29155 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10312005-124657/

Internet

http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29155
Brink, JD 2000, An acoustic comparison of the vowels and diphthongs of first-language and African-mother-tongue South African English, MEng dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29155 >
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10312005-124657/

Similar Items