Daniel R. van Niekerk

According to our database, Daniel R. van Niekerk authored at least 23 papers between 2009 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2024

Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak.

Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Santitham Prom-on, Lorna F. Halliday, Yi Xu

J. Phonetics, 2024

In Pursuit for the Best Error Metric for Optimisation of Articulatory Vowel Synthesis.

Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the Speech and Computer - 26th International Conference, 2024

2023

Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Lorna F. Halliday, Santitham Prom-on, Yi Xu

Speech Commun., February, 2023

Artificial Vocal Learning Guided by Phoneme Recognition and Visual Information.

Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel Rudolph van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2023

Self-Supervised Solution to the Control Problem of Articulatory Synthesis.

Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2022

Evoc-Learn - High quality simulation of early vocal learning.

Yi Xu, Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Peter Birkholz, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Lorna F. Halliday

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Articulatory Synthesis for Data Augmentation in Phoneme Recognition.

Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel Rudolph van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

2021

Model-Based Exploration of Linking Between Vowel Articulatory Space and Acoustic Space.

Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

2020

Evaluating Features and Metrics for High-Quality Simulation of Early Vocal Learning of Vowels.

Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

CoRR, 2020

Finding Intelligible Consonant-Vowel Sounds Using High-Quality Articulatory Synthesis.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

2017

Rapid Development of TTS Corpora for Four South African Languages.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Neil Kleynhans, Oddur Kjartansson, Martin Jansche, Linne Ha

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Universal Dependencies for Afrikaans.

Peter Dirix, Liesbeth Augustinus, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Frank Van Eynde

Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa Workshop on Universal Dependencies, 2017

2016

Code-switched English Pronunciation Modeling for Swahili Spoken Term Detection.

Neil Kleynhans, William Hartmann, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Richard M. Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis, Marelie H. Davel

Proceedings of the SLTU-2016, 2016

AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans.

Liesbeth Augustinus, Peter Dirix, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank Van Eynde, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

2014

Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Speech Commun., 2014

A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

2013

Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

2012

Tone realisation in a yorùbá speech recognition corpus.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2012

2010

An intonation model for TTS in sepedi.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Introducing the Speect speech synthesis platform.

Johannes A. Louw, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Georg I. Schlünz

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2010, Kansai Science City, Japan, September 25, 2010, 2010

2009

Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Using Cell Phones to Improve Language Skills: The Hadeda Project.

Laurie L. Butgereit, Adele Botha, Daniel R. van Niekerk

Proceedings of the E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries, 2009