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Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa
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| author | Florence, Idowu Modupeola |
| author2 | Mbogho, Audrey J W |
| author_browse | Florence, Idowu Modupeola Mbogho, Audrey J W |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10494 Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa Florence, Idowu Modupeola Mbogho, Audrey J W Information Technology Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a software application which recognizes human speech, processes it as input, and displays a text version of the speech as output or uses the input as commands for another application's usage. ASR can either be speaker-dependent or speaker-independent. A speaker-dependent ASR system required every user to perform training before its usage, while speaker-independent ASR requires no prior training before usage...This study involved the evaluation of commercially available English ASR systems, establishing their usability and usefulness among different language groups in South Africa which use English as a common language. Of particular interest was the effect of African accents on the performance of the ASR systems. ASR technology is widely used and researched in the developed world with reported recognition accuracy of up to 99%. However, English spoken with African accents may have adverse effect on the recognition accuracy... 2014-12-29T05:04:55Z 2014-12-29T05:04:55Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10494 eng application/pdf Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Information Technology Florence, Idowu Modupeola Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa |
| title_full | Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa |
| title_short | Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa |
| title_sort | evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in south africa |
| topic | Information Technology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10494 |
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