Publications

Daniel van Niekerk

Conference papers/proceedings

D.R. van Niekerk and E. Barnard, "An intonation model for TTS in Sepedi," in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Makuhari, Japan, September 2010, pp. 2182-2185.

D.R. van Niekerk and E. Barnard, "Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages," in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), Brighton, United Kingdom, September 2009, pp. 880-883.

D.R. van Niekerk, E. Barnard and G. Schlünz, "A perceptual evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis techniques in under-resourced environments," in Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 2009, pp. 71-75.

D.R van Niekerk and E. Barnard, "Acoustic cues identifying phonetic transitions for speech segmentation," in Proceedings of the 19th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Cape Town, South Africa, November 2008, pp. 55-59.

D.R. van Niekerk and E. Barnard, "Important factors in HMM-based phonetic segmentation," in Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, November 2007, pp. 25-28.

J.A.C. Badenhorst, D.R. van Niekerk and E. Barnard, "Automatic systems for assistance in improving pronunciations," in Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), Parys, South Africa, November 2006, pp. 23-29.