Etienne Barnard

According to our database, Etienne Barnard authored at least 110 papers between 1988 and 2023.

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2023

Minimum phase finite impulse response filter design.

Jan C. Olivier, Etienne Barnard

IET Signal Process., January, 2023

2022

Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance.

Ruan van der Merwe, Gregory Newman, Etienne Barnard

CoRR, 2022

2020

Language Modeling for Speech Analytics in Under-Resourced Languages.

Simone Wills, Pieter Uys, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Interspeech 2020, 2020

DNNs as Layers of Cooperating Classifiers.

Marelie H. Davel, Marthinus W. Theunissen, Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019

Insights regarding overfitting on noise in deep learning.

Marthinus W. Theunissen, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2019

ReLU and sigmoidal activation functions.

Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel

Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2019

2017

Variable Kernel Density Estimation in High-Dimensional Feature Spaces.

Christiaan Maarten van der Walt, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2015

Efficient data selection for ASR.

Neil Taylor Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard

Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2015

Exploring minimal pronunciation modeling for low resource languages.

Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard, Charl Johannes van Heerden, William Hartmann, Damianos G. Karakos, Richard M. Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015

2014

A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages.

Nic J. de Vries, Marelie H. Davel, Jaco Badenhorst, Willem D. Basson, Febe de Wet, Etienne Barnard, Alta de Waal

Speech Commun., 2014

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

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Speech Commun., 2014

Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey.

Laurent Besacier, Etienne Barnard, Alexey Karpov, Tanja Schultz

Speech Commun., 2014

Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages.

Laurent Besacier, Etienne Barnard, Alexey Karpov, Tanja Schultz

Speech Commun., 2014

Language independent search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search task.

Florian Metze, Xavier Anguera, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Guillaume Gravier

Comput. Speech Lang., 2014

Speech data collection in an under-resourced language within a multilingual context.

Raymond Molapo, Etienne Barnard, Febe de Wet

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2014

The NCHLT speech corpus of the South African languages.

Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Febe de Wet, Jaco Badenhorst

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages, 2014

A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2014, 2014

2013

Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2013, 2013

G2p variant prediction techniques for ASR and STD.

Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2013, 2013

The spoken web search task at MediaEval 2012.

Florian Metze, Xavier Anguera, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Guillaume Gravier

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.

Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2013

2012

Factors that affect the accuracy of text-based language identification.

Gerrit Reinier Botha, Etienne Barnard

Comput. Speech Lang., 2012

Wolof Speech Recognition Model of Digits and Limited-Vocabulary Based on HMM and ToolKit.

James K. Tamgno, Etienne Barnard, Claude Lishou, Morgan Richomme

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, 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

Medium-vocabulary speech recognition for under-resourced languages.

Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

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

Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora.

Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard

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.

Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Mqhele E. Dlodlo

Proceedings of the 2012 South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference, 2012

The Spoken Web Search Task.

Florian Metze, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Xavier Anguera, Guillaume Gravier, Nitendra Rajput

Proceedings of the Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2012 Workshop, 2012

A voice service for user feedback on school meals.

Aditi Sharma Grover, Karen Calteaux, Etienne Barnard, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen

Proceedings of the ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2012

2011

Determination and the No-Free-Lunch Paradox.

Etienne Barnard

Neural Comput., 2011

Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages.

Jaco Badenhorst, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2011

The Lwazi community communication service: design and piloting of a voice-based information service.

Aditi Sharma Grover, Etienne Barnard

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.

Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Renee Koen, Bryan McAlister

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.

Nic J. de Vries, Jaco Badenhorst, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard, Alta de Waal

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011

Efficient Harvesting of Internet Audio for Resource-Scarce ASR.

Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Neil Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011

2010

Pooling ASR data for closely related languages.

Charl Johannes van Heerden, Neil Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 2010

From tone to pitch in Sepedi.

Etienne Barnard, Sabine Zerbian

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 2010

An intonation model for TTS in sepedi.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2010, 2010

Voice search for development.

Etienne Barnard, Johan Schalkwyk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Pedro J. Moreno

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2010, 2010

Combining regression and classification methods for improving automatic speaker age recognition.

Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Christiaan van der Walt, Ewald van Dyk, Michael Feld, Christian A. Müller

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

Speech Technology for Information Access: a South African Case Study.

Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence for Development, 2010

2009

Continuous speech recognition with sparse coding.

W. J. Smit, Etienne Barnard

Comput. Speech Lang., 2009

Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages.

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2009, 2009

Basic speech recognition for spoken dialogues.

Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2009, 2009

ASR corpus design for resource-scarce languages.

Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2009, 2009

HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: Touchtone vs. speech.

Aditi Sharma Grover, Madelaine Plauché, Etienne Barnard, Christiaan Kuun

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009

Multilingual speaker age recognition: Regression analyses on the Lwazi corpus.

Michael Feld, Etienne Barnard, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Christian A. Müller

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

2008

Guest editorial: pattern recognition especial edition.

Jules-Raymond Tapamo, Etienne Barnard

South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Speech-based emotion detection in a resource-scarce environment.

Olga Martirosian, Etienne Barnard

South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Speaker-specific variability of phoneme durations.

Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard

South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Naive Bayesian classifiers for multinomial features: a theoretical analysis.

Ewald van Dyk, Etienne Barnard

South Afr. Comput. J., 2008

Pronunciation prediction with Default&Refine.

Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Comput. Speech Lang., 2008

The utility of spoken dialog systems.

Etienne Barnard, Madelaine Plauché, Marelie H. Davel

Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008

Influences on tone in Sepedi, a southern Bantu language.

Sabine Zerbian, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2008, 2008

Openphone User Engagement and Requirements Solicitation in Low Literacy Users.

Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Mqhele E. Dlodlo, Daniel J. Mashao, Christiaan Kuun, Aditi Sharma Grover

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction Symposium, 2008

Applying Topic Modeling to Forensic Data.

Alta de Waal, Jacobus Venter, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Advances in Digital Forensics IV, 2008

2007

Pitch modelling for the Nguni languages.

Natasha Govender, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel

South Afr. Comput. J., 2007

Durations of Context-Dependent Phonemes: A New Feature in Speaker Verification.

Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Speaker Classification II, 2007

Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data.

Marius Peche, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2007, 2007

2006

Developing consistent pronunciation models for phonemic variants.

Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2006, 2006

2005

Fundamental frequency and tone in isizulu: initial experiments.

Natasha Govender, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2005, 2005

Bootstrapping pronunciation dictionaries: practical issues.

Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2005, 2005

Technology in Support of Accessible eGovernment.

Laurens Cloete, Hina Patel, Louis Coetzee, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Electronic Government, 2005

2004

The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: human factors during bootstrapping.

Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2004, 2004

The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: machine learning factors during bootstrapping.

Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2004, 2004

Initial Experiments on the Effectiveness of Telephone Access to Government Services.

Laurens Cloete, Etienne Barnard, Hina Patel

Proceedings of the Electronic Government: Third International Conference, 2004

2003

Language and Technology Literacy Barriers to Accessing Government Services.

Etienne Barnard, Laurens Cloete, Hina Patel

Proceedings of the Electronic Government, Second International Conference, 2003

1999

A Fast Histogram-Based Postprocessor That Improves Posterior Probability Estimates.

Wei Wei, Todd K. Leen, Etienne Barnard

Neural Comput., 1999

1997

Toward new language adaptation for language identification.

Etienne Barnard, Yonghong Yan

Speech Commun., 1997

On the asymmetry in the PSD for 2-D linear prediction.

Johann W. Odendaal, Etienne Barnard, Carl W. I. Pistorius

Signal Process., 1997

Efficient estimation of perceptual features for speech recognition.

Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Explicit, N-best formant features for vowel classification.

Philipp Schmid, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

Smoothness analysis for trajectory features.

Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1997

1996

Feature-based classification of aerospace radar targets using neural networks.

Elizabeth C. Botha, Etienne Barnard, Charl J. Barnard

Neural Networks, 1996

Development of an approach to automatic language identification based on phone recognition.

Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole

Comput. Speech Lang., 1996

Improved probability estimation with neural network models.

Wei Wei, Etienne Barnard, Mark A. Fanty

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Phone clustering using the bhattacharyya distance.

Brian Mak, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Speech recognition using syllable-like units.

Zhihong Hu, Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Language identification with inaccurate string matching.

Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

Speaker verification with low storage requirements.

Johan Schalkwyk, Neena Jain, Etienne Barnard

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.

Neena Jain, Ronald A. Cole, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

Experiments for an approach to language identification with conversational telephone speech.

Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1996

1995

Process modeling with the regression network.

Tjaart van der Walt, Etienne Barnard, Jamie van Deventer

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1995

An approach to language identification with enhanced language model.

Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Robust, n-best formant tracking.

Philipp Schmid, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Transition-based feature extraction within frame-based recognition.

Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

Theoretical error prediction for a language identification system using optimal phoneme clustering.

Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

An approach to automatic language identification based on language-dependent phone recognition.

Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, 1995

1994

A model for nonpolynomial decrease in error rate with increasing sample size.

Etienne Barnard

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1994

Reviewing automatic language identification.

Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole

IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 1994

A comparative study of optimization techniques for backpropagation.

Etienne Barnard, Johann E. W. Holm

Neurocomputing, 1994

Language identification of six languages based on a common set of broad phonemes.

Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

Detecting an imposter in telephone speech.

Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard, Jeffrey R. Sachs

Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

Analysis of phoneme-based features for language identification.

Kay M. Berkling, Takayuki Arai, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of ICASSP '94: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1994

1993

Temporal-difference methods and Markov models.

Etienne Barnard

IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1993

Backpropagation neural nets with one and two hidden layers.

Jacques de Villiers, Etienne Barnard

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1993

Backpropagation uses prior information efficiently.

Etienne Barnard, Elizabeth C. Botha

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1993

Related approaches to gradient-based thresholding.

A. M. Groenewald, Etienne Barnard, Elizabeth C. Botha

Pattern Recognit. Lett., 1993

A comparison of approaches to automatic language identification using telephone speech.

Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Kay M. Berkling, Takayuki Arai, Ronald A. Cole, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

1992

Avoiding false local minima by proper initialization of connections.

Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Etienne Barnard

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992

Comments on 'Bayes statistical behavior and valid generalization of pattern classifying neural networks' [with reply].

Etienne Barnard, Fumio Kanaya, Shigeki Miyake

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992

Optimization for training neural nets.

Etienne Barnard

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992

1991

Pitch detection with a neural-net classifier.

Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole, Mathew P. Vea, Fileno A. Alleva

IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991

Invariance and neural nets.

Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1991

Performance and generalization of the classification figure of merit criterion function.

Etienne Barnard

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1991

1990

Shift invariance and the neocognitron.

Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent

Neural Networks, 1990

Adaptive clustering neural net for piecewise nonlinear discriminant surfaces.

David P. Casasent, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the IJCNN 1990, 1990

1989

A comparison between criterion functions for linear classifiers, with an application to neural nets.

Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent

IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1989

Performance Comparisons Between Backpropagation Networks and Classification Trees on Three Real-World Applications.

Les E. Atlas, Ronald A. Cole, Jerome T. Connor, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Robert J. Marks II, Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Etienne Barnard

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2, 1989

1988

Optical neural networks for image analysis: imaging spectroscopy and production systems.

Elizabeth C. Botha, Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent

Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'88), 1988