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2020 – today
- 2023
- [j39]Jan C. Olivier, Etienne Barnard:
Minimum phase finite impulse response filter design. IET Signal Process. 17(1) (2023) - 2022
- [i2]Ruan van der Merwe, Gregory Newman, Etienne Barnard:
Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance. CoRR abs/2205.07477 (2022) - 2020
- [j38]Marthinus Wilhelmus Theunissen, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Benign interpolation of noise in deep learning. South Afr. Comput. J. 32(2) (2020) - [c71]Marelie H. Davel, Marthinus W. Theunissen, Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard:
DNNs as Layers of Cooperating Classifiers. AAAI 2020: 3725-3732 - [c70]Simone Wills, Pieter Uys, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard:
Language Modeling for Speech Analytics in Under-Resourced Languages. INTERSPEECH 2020: 4941-4945 - [e1]Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research, Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 December, 2019. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2540, CEUR-WS.org 2020 [contents] - [i1]Marelie H. Davel, Marthinus W. Theunissen, Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard:
DNNs as Layers of Cooperating Classifiers. CoRR abs/2001.06178 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c69]Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel:
ReLU and sigmoidal activation functions. FAIR 2019: 37-48 - [c68]Marthinus W. Theunissen, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Insights regarding overfitting on noise in deep learning. FAIR 2019: 49-63 - 2017
- [c67]Christiaan Maarten van der Walt, Etienne Barnard:
Variable Kernel Density Estimation in High-Dimensional Feature Spaces. AAAI 2017: 2674-2680 - 2015
- [j37]Neil Taylor Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard:
Efficient data selection for ASR. Lang. Resour. Evaluation 49(2): 327-353 (2015) - [c66]Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard, Charl Johannes van Heerden, William Hartmann, Damianos G. Karakos, Richard M. Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis:
Exploring minimal pronunciation modeling for low resource languages. INTERSPEECH 2015: 538-542 - 2014
- [j36]Florian Metze, Xavier Anguera, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Guillaume Gravier:
Language independent search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search task. Comput. Speech Lang. 28(5): 1066-1082 (2014) - [j35]Laurent Besacier, Etienne Barnard, Alexey Karpov, Tanja Schultz:
Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages. Speech Commun. 56: 83-84 (2014) - [j34]Laurent Besacier, Etienne Barnard, Alexey Karpov, Tanja Schultz:
Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey. Speech Commun. 56: 85-100 (2014) - [j33]Nic J. de Vries, Marelie H. Davel, Jaco Badenhorst, Willem D. Basson, Febe de Wet, Etienne Barnard, Alta de Waal:
A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages. Speech Commun. 56: 119-131 (2014) - [j32]Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard:
Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis. Speech Commun. 56: 229-242 (2014) - [c65]Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard:
A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS. INTERSPEECH 2014: 36-40 - [c64]Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Febe de Wet, Jaco Badenhorst:
The NCHLT speech corpus of the South African languages. SLTU 2014: 194-200 - [c63]Raymond Molapo, Etienne Barnard, Febe de Wet:
Speech data collection in an under-resourced language within a multilingual context. SLTU 2014: 238-242 - 2013
- [c62]Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard:
Consequences of deploying culturally inclined earcons in speech technology design for oral users in South Africa. ACM DEV (3) 2013: 32:1-32:2 - [c61]Florian Metze, Xavier Anguera, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Guillaume Gravier:
The spoken web search task at MediaEval 2012. ICASSP 2013: 8121-8125 - [c60]Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard:
Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá. INTERSPEECH 2013: 1027-1031 - [c59]Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard:
G2p variant prediction techniques for ASR and STD. INTERSPEECH 2013: 1831-1835 - 2012
- [j31]Gerrit Reinier Botha, Etienne Barnard:
Factors that affect the accuracy of text-based language identification. Comput. Speech Lang. 26(5): 307-320 (2012) - [c58]Aditi Sharma Grover, Karen Calteaux, Etienne Barnard, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen:
A voice service for user feedback on school meals. ACM DEV 2012: 13:1-13:10 - [c57]Florian Metze, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Xavier Anguera, Guillaume Gravier, Nitendra Rajput:
The Spoken Web Search Task. MediaEval 2012 - [c56]Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Mqhele E. Dlodlo:
Effects of application type on the choice of interaction modality in IVR systems. SAICSIT 2012: 236-242 - [c55]Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard:
Tone realisation in a yorùbá speech recognition corpus. SLTU 2012: 54-59 - [c54]Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard:
Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora. SLTU 2012: 68-75 - [c53]Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Medium-vocabulary speech recognition for under-resourced languages. SLTU 2012: 146-151 - [c52]James K. Tamgno, Etienne Barnard, Claude Lishou, Morgan Richomme:
Wolof Speech Recognition Model of Digits and Limited-Vocabulary Based on HMM and ToolKit. UKSim 2012: 389-395 - 2011
- [j30]Jaco Badenhorst, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages. Lang. Resour. Evaluation 45(3): 289-309 (2011) - [j29]Etienne Barnard:
Determination and the No-Free-Lunch Paradox. Neural Comput. 23(7): 1899-1909 (2011) - [c51]Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Neil Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard:
Efficient Harvesting of Internet Audio for Resource-Scarce ASR. INTERSPEECH 2011: 3153-3156 - [c50]Nic J. de Vries, Jaco Badenhorst, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard, Alta de Waal:
Woefzela - An Open-Source Platform for ASR Data Collection in the Developing World. INTERSPEECH 2011: 3177-3180 - [c49]Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Renee Koen, Bryan McAlister:
Efficiency measurements in IVR systems for oral users: consequences of differences in educational levels. SAICSIT 2011: 171-176 - [c48]Aditi Sharma Grover, Etienne Barnard:
The Lwazi community communication service: design and piloting of a voice-based information service. WWW (Companion Volume) 2011: 433-442 - 2010
- [c47]Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen:
Speech Technology for Information Access: a South African Case Study. AAAI Spring Symposium: Artificial Intelligence for Development 2010 - [c46]Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Christiaan van der Walt, Ewald van Dyk, Michael Feld, Christian A. Müller:
Combining regression and classification methods for improving automatic speaker age recognition. ICASSP 2010: 5174-5177 - [c45]Etienne Barnard, Johan Schalkwyk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Pedro J. Moreno:
Voice search for development. INTERSPEECH 2010: 282-285 - [c44]Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard:
An intonation model for TTS in sepedi. INTERSPEECH 2010: 2182-2185 - [c43]Charl Johannes van Heerden, Neil Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel:
Pooling ASR data for closely related languages. SLTU 2010: 17-23 - [c42]Etienne Barnard, Sabine Zerbian:
From tone to pitch in Sepedi. SLTU 2010: 29-34
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [j28]W. J. Smit, Etienne Barnard:
Continuous speech recognition with sparse coding. Comput. Speech Lang. 23(2): 200-219 (2009) - [c41]Michael Feld, Etienne Barnard, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Christian A. Müller:
Multilingual speaker age recognition: Regression analyses on the Lwazi corpus. ASRU 2009: 534-539 - [c40]Aditi Sharma Grover, Madelaine Plauché, Etienne Barnard, Christiaan Kuun:
HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: Touchtone vs. speech. ICTD 2009: 95-107 - [c39]Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard:
Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages. INTERSPEECH 2009: 880-883 - [c38]Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden:
ASR corpus design for resource-scarce languages. INTERSPEECH 2009: 2847-2850 - [c37]Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel:
Basic speech recognition for spoken dialogues. INTERSPEECH 2009: 3003-3006 - 2008
- [j27]Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Pronunciation prediction with Default&Refine. Comput. Speech Lang. 22(4): 374-393 (2008) - [j26]Jules-Raymond Tapamo, Etienne Barnard:
Guest editorial: pattern recognition especial edition. South Afr. Comput. J. 40: 3 (2008) - [j25]Olga Martirosian, Etienne Barnard:
Speech-based emotion detection in a resource-scarce environment. South Afr. Comput. J. 40: 18-22 (2008) - [j24]Ewald van Dyk, Etienne Barnard:
Naive Bayesian classifiers for multinomial features: a theoretical analysis. South Afr. Comput. J. 40: 37-43 (2008) - [j23]Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard:
Speaker-specific variability of phoneme durations. South Afr. Comput. J. 40: 44-50 (2008) - [c36]Alta de Waal, Jacobus Venter, Etienne Barnard:
Applying Topic Modeling to Forensic Data. IFIP Int. Conf. Digital Forensics 2008: 115-126 - [c35]Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Mqhele E. Dlodlo, Daniel J. Mashao, Christiaan Kuun, Aditi Sharma Grover:
Openphone User Engagement and Requirements Solicitation in Low Literacy Users. HCIS 2008: 189-193 - [c34]Sabine Zerbian, Etienne Barnard:
Influences on tone in Sepedi, a southern Bantu language. INTERSPEECH 2008: 625 - [c33]Etienne Barnard, Madelaine Plauché, Marelie H. Davel:
The utility of spoken dialog systems. SLT 2008: 13-16 - 2007
- [j22]Natasha Govender, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel:
Pitch modelling for the Nguni languages. South Afr. Comput. J. 38: 28-39 (2007) - [c32]Marius Peche, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data. INTERSPEECH 2007: 1537-1540 - [c31]Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard:
Durations of Context-Dependent Phonemes: A New Feature in Speaker Verification. Speaker Classification (2) 2007: 93-103 - 2006
- [c30]Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Developing consistent pronunciation models for phonemic variants. INTERSPEECH 2006 - 2005
- [c29]Laurens Cloete, Hina Patel, Louis Coetzee, Etienne Barnard:
Technology in Support of Accessible eGovernment. EGOV (Workshops and Posters) 2005: 249-255 - [c28]Natasha Govender, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel:
Fundamental frequency and tone in isizulu: initial experiments. INTERSPEECH 2005: 1417-1420 - [c27]Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
Bootstrapping pronunciation dictionaries: practical issues. INTERSPEECH 2005: 1561-1564 - 2004
- [c26]Laurens Cloete, Etienne Barnard, Hina Patel:
Initial Experiments on the Effectiveness of Telephone Access to Government Services. EGOV 2004: 564-565 - [c25]Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: machine learning factors during bootstrapping. INTERSPEECH 2004: 2781-2784 - [c24]Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard:
The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: human factors during bootstrapping. INTERSPEECH 2004: 2797-2800 - 2003
- [c23]Etienne Barnard, Laurens Cloete, Hina Patel:
Language and Technology Literacy Barriers to Accessing Government Services. EGOV 2003: 37-42
1990 – 1999
- 1999
- [j21]Wei Wei, Todd K. Leen, Etienne Barnard:
A Fast Histogram-Based Postprocessor That Improves Posterior Probability Estimates. Neural Comput. 11(5): 1235-1248 (1999) - 1997
- [j20]Johann W. Odendaal, Etienne Barnard, Carl W. I. Pistorius:
On the asymmetry in the PSD for 2-D linear prediction. Signal Process. 60(1): 43-49 (1997) - [j19]Etienne Barnard, Yonghong Yan:
Toward new language adaptation for language identification. Speech Commun. 21(4): 245-254 (1997) - [c22]Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard:
Smoothness analysis for trajectory features. ICASSP 1997: 979-982 - [c21]Philipp Schmid, Etienne Barnard:
Explicit, N-best formant features for vowel classification. ICASSP 1997: 991-994 - [c20]Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard:
Efficient estimation of perceptual features for speech recognition. EUROSPEECH 1997: 493-496 - 1996
- [j18]Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole:
Development of an approach to automatic language identification based on phone recognition. Comput. Speech Lang. 10(1): 37-54 (1996) - [j17]Elizabeth C. Botha, Etienne Barnard, Charl J. Barnard:
Feature-based classification of aerospace radar targets using neural networks. Neural Networks 9(1): 129-142 (1996) - [c19]Johan Schalkwyk, Neena Jain, Etienne Barnard:
Speaker verification with low storage requirements. ICASSP 1996: 693-696 - [c18]Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard:
Experiments for an approach to language identification with conversational telephone speech. ICASSP 1996: 789-792 - [c17]Neena Jain, Ronald A. Cole, Etienne Barnard:
Creating speaker-specific phonetic templates with a speaker-independent phonetic recognizer: implications for voice dialing. ICASSP 1996: 881-884 - [c16]Wei Wei, Etienne Barnard, Mark A. Fanty:
Improved probability estimation with neural network models. ICSLP 1996: 502-505 - [c15]Zhihong Hu, Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole:
Speech recognition using syllable-like units. ICSLP 1996: 1117-1120 - [c14]Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard:
Language identification with inaccurate string matching. ICSLP 1996: 1796-1799 - [c13]Brian Mak, Etienne Barnard:
Phone clustering using the bhattacharyya distance. ICSLP 1996: 2005-2008 - 1995
- [j16]Tjaart van der Walt, Etienne Barnard, Jamie van Deventer:
Process modeling with the regression network. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 6(1): 78-93 (1995) - [c12]Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard:
An approach to automatic language identification based on language-dependent phone recognition. ICASSP 1995: 3511-3514 - [c11]Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard:
Theoretical error prediction for a language identification system using optimal phoneme clustering. EUROSPEECH 1995: 351-354 - [c10]Philipp Schmid, Etienne Barnard:
Robust, n-best formant tracking. EUROSPEECH 1995: 737-740 - [c9]Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard:
An approach to language identification with enhanced language model. EUROSPEECH 1995: 1351-1354 - [c8]Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole:
Transition-based feature extraction within frame-based recognition. EUROSPEECH 1995: 1555-1558 - 1994
- [j15]Etienne Barnard, Johann E. W. Holm:
A comparative study of optimization techniques for backpropagation. Neurocomputing 6(1): 19-30 (1994) - [j14]Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole:
Reviewing automatic language identification. IEEE Signal Process. Mag. 11(4): 33-41 (1994) - [j13]Etienne Barnard:
A model for nonpolynomial decrease in error rate with increasing sample size. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 5(6): 994-997 (1994) - [c7]Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard, Jeffrey R. Sachs:
Detecting an imposter in telephone speech. ICASSP (1) 1994: 169-172 - [c6]Kay M. Berkling, Takayuki Arai, Etienne Barnard:
Analysis of phoneme-based features for language identification. ICASSP (1) 1994: 289-292 - [c5]Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard:
Language identification of six languages based on a common set of broad phonemes. ICSLP 1994: 1891-1894 - 1993
- [j12]A. M. Groenewald, Etienne Barnard, Elizabeth C. Botha:
Related approaches to gradient-based thresholding. Pattern Recognit. Lett. 14(7): 567-572 (1993) - [j11]Jacques de Villiers, Etienne Barnard:
Backpropagation neural nets with one and two hidden layers. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 4(1): 136-141 (1993) - [j10]Etienne Barnard, Elizabeth C. Botha:
Backpropagation uses prior information efficiently. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 4(5): 794-802 (1993) - [j9]Etienne Barnard:
Temporal-difference methods and Markov models. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. 23(2): 357-365 (1993) - [c4]Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Kay M. Berkling, Takayuki Arai, Ronald A. Cole, Etienne Barnard:
A comparison of approaches to automatic language identification using telephone speech. EUROSPEECH 1993: 1307-1310 - 1992
- [j8]Etienne Barnard:
Optimization for training neural nets. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 3(2): 232-240 (1992) - [j7]Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Etienne Barnard:
Avoiding false local minima by proper initialization of connections. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 3(6): 899-905 (1992) - [j6]Etienne Barnard, Fumio Kanaya, Shigeki Miyake:
Comments on 'Bayes statistical behavior and valid generalization of pattern classifying neural networks' [with reply]. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 3(6): 1026-1027 (1992) - 1991
- [j5]Etienne Barnard:
Performance and generalization of the classification figure of merit criterion function. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 2(2): 322-325 (1991) - [j4]Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent:
Invariance and neural nets. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 2(5): 498-508 (1991) - [j3]Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole, Mathew P. Vea, Fileno A. Alleva:
Pitch detection with a neural-net classifier. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 39(2): 298-307 (1991) - 1990
- [j2]Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent:
Shift invariance and the neocognitron. Neural Networks 3(4): 403-410 (1990) - [c3]David P. Casasent, Etienne Barnard:
Adaptive clustering neural net for piecewise nonlinear discriminant surfaces. IJCNN 1990: 423-428
1980 – 1989
- 1989
- [j1]Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent:
A comparison between criterion functions for linear classifiers, with an application to neural nets. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. 19(5): 1030-1041 (1989) - [c2]Les E. Atlas, Ronald A. Cole, Jerome T. Connor, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Robert J. Marks II, Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Etienne Barnard:
Performance Comparisons Between Backpropagation Networks and Classification Trees on Three Real-World Applications. NIPS 1989: 622-629 - 1988
- [c1]Elizabeth C. Botha, Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent:
Optical neural networks for image analysis: imaging spectroscopy and production systems. ICNN 1988: 541-546
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