Publications

Journal publications

J.A. Louw, M. Davel and E. Barnard, “A general-purpose IsiZulu Speech Synthesiser”, South African journal of African languages, 2006.

Conference Proceedings:

J.A. Louw, “Speect: A Multilingual Text-to-speech System”, In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), pp 165-168, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2008.

J. A. Louw and M. Davel,“Halfphones: A Backoff Mechanism for Diphone Unit Selection Synthesis”. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, pp. 42-45 Parys, November 2006.

J.A. Louw, M. Davel and E. Barnard, “A general-purpose IsiZulu Speech Synthesiser”, The 14th International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2005.

J.A. Louw and E. Barnard, "Automatic intonation modeling with INTSINT", in Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, pp. 107-111, Grabouw, South Africa, November 2004.

Masters Thesis:

Louw JA, "Synthesis of out-of-vocabulary proper names in a limited domain text-to-speech system"

Technical Reports:

Visagie AS and Louw JA, "Text corpus recordings for limited domain TTS" AST Technical Report 2003.

Visagie AS and Louw JA, "Building limited domain voices in the AST Framework" AST Technical Report 2003.

Visagie AS and Louw JA, "The AST Speech Application System Framework" AST Technical Report 2002.

Louw JA, "Flite experiences and recommendations" LLSTI Technical Report 2004.

Louw JA, "Pitch-marking in Festival" LLSTI Technical Report 2004.

Louw JA, "Building INTSINT Intonation models in the Festival Speech Synthesis System" LLSTI Technical Report 2004.