Etienne Barnard

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According to our database1, Etienne Barnard authored at least 111 papers between 1988 and 2023.

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2023
Minimum phase finite impulse response filter design.
IET Signal Process., January, 2023

2022
Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance.
CoRR, 2022

2020
Benign interpolation of noise in deep learning.
South Afr. Comput. J., 2020

Language Modeling for Speech Analytics in Under-Resourced Languages.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

DNNs as Layers of Cooperating Classifiers.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019
Insights regarding overfitting on noise in deep learning.
Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2019

ReLU and sigmoidal activation functions.
Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2019

2017
Variable Kernel Density Estimation in High-Dimensional Feature Spaces.
Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2015
Efficient data selection for ASR.
Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2015

Exploring minimal pronunciation modeling for low resource languages.
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

2014
A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages.
Speech Commun., 2014

Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis.
Speech Commun., 2014

Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey.
Speech Commun., 2014

Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages.
Speech Commun., 2014

Language independent search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search task.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2014

Speech data collection in an under-resourced language within a multilingual context.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2014

The NCHLT speech corpus of the South African languages.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2014

A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

2013
Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

G2p variant prediction techniques for ASR and STD.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

The spoken web search task at MediaEval 2012.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Consequences of deploying culturally inclined earcons in speech technology design for oral users in South Africa.
Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2013

2012
Factors that affect the accuracy of text-based language identification.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2012

Wolof Speech Recognition Model of Digits and Limited-Vocabulary Based on HMM and ToolKit.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, 2012

Tone realisation in a yorùbá speech recognition corpus.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2012

Medium-vocabulary speech recognition for under-resourced languages.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2012

Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2012

Effects of application type on the choice of interaction modality in IVR systems.
Proceedings of the 2012 South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference, 2012

The Spoken Web Search Task.
Proceedings of the Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2012 Workshop, 2012

A voice service for user feedback on school meals.
Proceedings of the ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2012

2011
Determination and the No-Free-Lunch Paradox.
Neural Comput., 2011

Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages.
Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2011

The Lwazi community communication service: design and piloting of a voice-based information service.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2011

Efficiency measurements in IVR systems for oral users: consequences of differences in educational levels.
Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2011

Woefzela - An Open-Source Platform for ASR Data Collection in the Developing World.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Efficient Harvesting of Internet Audio for Resource-Scarce ASR.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

2010
Pooling ASR data for closely related languages.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 2010

From tone to pitch in Sepedi.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 2010

An intonation model for TTS in sepedi.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Voice search for development.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Combining regression and classification methods for improving automatic speaker age recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

Speech Technology for Information Access: a South African Case Study.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence for Development, 2010

2009
Continuous speech recognition with sparse coding.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2009

Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Basic speech recognition for spoken dialogues.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

ASR corpus design for resource-scarce languages.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: Touchtone vs. speech.
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009

Multilingual speaker age recognition: Regression analyses on the Lwazi corpus.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

2008
Guest editorial: pattern recognition especial edition.
South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Speech-based emotion detection in a resource-scarce environment.
South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Speaker-specific variability of phoneme durations.
South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Naive Bayesian classifiers for multinomial features: a theoretical analysis.
South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Pronunciation prediction with Default&Refine.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2008

The utility of spoken dialog systems.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008

Influences on tone in Sepedi, a southern Bantu language.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Openphone User Engagement and Requirements Solicitation in Low Literacy Users.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction Symposium, 2008

Applying Topic Modeling to Forensic Data.
Proceedings of the Advances in Digital Forensics IV, 2008

2007
Pitch modelling for the Nguni languages.
South Afr. Comput. J., 2007

Durations of Context-Dependent Phonemes: A New Feature in Speaker Verification.
Proceedings of the Speaker Classification II, 2007

Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

2006
Developing consistent pronunciation models for phonemic variants.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005
Fundamental frequency and tone in isizulu: initial experiments.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Bootstrapping pronunciation dictionaries: practical issues.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Technology in Support of Accessible eGovernment.
Proceedings of the Electronic Government, 2005

2004
The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: human factors during bootstrapping.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: machine learning factors during bootstrapping.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

Initial Experiments on the Effectiveness of Telephone Access to Government Services.
Proceedings of the Electronic Government: Third International Conference, 2004

2003
Language and Technology Literacy Barriers to Accessing Government Services.
Proceedings of the Electronic Government, Second International Conference, 2003

1999
A Fast Histogram-Based Postprocessor That Improves Posterior Probability Estimates.
Neural Comput., 1999

1997
Toward new language adaptation for language identification.
Speech Commun., 1997

On the asymmetry in the PSD for 2-D linear prediction.
Signal Process., 1997

Efficient estimation of perceptual features for speech recognition.
Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Explicit, N-best formant features for vowel classification.
Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

Smoothness analysis for trajectory features.
Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

1996
Feature-based classification of aerospace radar targets using neural networks.
Neural Networks, 1996

Development of an approach to automatic language identification based on phone recognition.
Comput. Speech Lang., 1996

Improved probability estimation with neural network models.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Phone clustering using the bhattacharyya distance.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Speech recognition using syllable-like units.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Language identification with inaccurate string matching.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Speaker verification with low storage requirements.
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

Creating speaker-specific phonetic templates with a speaker-independent phonetic recognizer: implications for voice dialing.
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

Experiments for an approach to language identification with conversational telephone speech.
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

1995
Process modeling with the regression network.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1995

An approach to language identification with enhanced language model.
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Robust, n-best formant tracking.
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Transition-based feature extraction within frame-based recognition.
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Theoretical error prediction for a language identification system using optimal phoneme clustering.
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

An approach to automatic language identification based on language-dependent phone recognition.
Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, 1995

1994
A model for nonpolynomial decrease in error rate with increasing sample size.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1994

Reviewing automatic language identification.
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 1994

A comparative study of optimization techniques for backpropagation.
Neurocomputing, 1994

Language identification of six languages based on a common set of broad phonemes.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

Detecting an imposter in telephone speech.
Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

Analysis of phoneme-based features for language identification.
Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

1993
Temporal-difference methods and Markov models.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1993

Backpropagation neural nets with one and two hidden layers.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1993

Backpropagation uses prior information efficiently.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1993

Related approaches to gradient-based thresholding.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 1993

A comparison of approaches to automatic language identification using telephone speech.
Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

1992
Avoiding false local minima by proper initialization of connections.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992

Comments on 'Bayes statistical behavior and valid generalization of pattern classifying neural networks' [with reply].
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992

Optimization for training neural nets.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992

1991
Pitch detection with a neural-net classifier.
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

Invariance and neural nets.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1991

Performance and generalization of the classification figure of merit criterion function.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1991

1990
Shift invariance and the neocognitron.
Neural Networks, 1990

Adaptive clustering neural net for piecewise nonlinear discriminant surfaces.
Proceedings of the IJCNN 1990, 1990

1989
A comparison between criterion functions for linear classifiers, with an application to neural nets.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1989

Performance Comparisons Between Backpropagation Networks and Classification Trees on Three Real-World Applications.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2, 1989

1988
Optical neural networks for image analysis: imaging spectroscopy and production systems.
Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'88), 1988


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