Optical neural networks for image analysis: imaging spectroscopy and production systems. - Elizabeth C. Botha; Etienne Barnard; David P. Casasent (ICNN, 1988)

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 (NIPS, 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)

Adaptive clustering neural net for piecewise nonlinear discriminant surfaces. - David P. Casasent; Etienne Barnard (IJCNN, 1990)

Shift invariance and the neocognitron. - Etienne Barnard; David P. Casasent (Neural Networks, 1990)

Performance and generalization of the classification figure of merit criterion function. - Etienne Barnard (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1991)

Invariance and neural nets. - Etienne Barnard; David P. Casasent (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1991)

Pitch detection with a neural-net classifier. - Etienne Barnard; Ronald A. Cole; Mathew P. Vea; Fileno A. Alleva (IEEE Trans. Signal Process., 1991)

Optimization for training neural nets. - 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)

Avoiding false local minima by proper initialization of connections. - Lodewyk F. A. Wessels; Etienne Barnard (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992)

A comparison of approaches to automatic language identification using telephone speech. - Yeshwant K. Muthusamy; Kay M. Berkling; Takayuki Arai; Ronald A. Cole; Etienne Barnard (EUROSPEECH, 1993)

Related approaches to gradient-based thresholding. - A. M. Groenewald; Etienne Barnard; Elizabeth C. Botha (Pattern Recognit. Lett., 1993)

Backpropagation uses prior information efficiently. - Etienne Barnard; Elizabeth C. Botha (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1993)

Backpropagation neural nets with one and two hidden layers. - Jacques de Villiers; Etienne Barnard (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1993)

Temporal-difference methods and Markov models. - Etienne Barnard (IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1993)

Analysis of phoneme-based features for language identification. - Kay M. Berkling; Takayuki Arai; Etienne Barnard (ICASSP (1), 1994)

Detecting an imposter in telephone speech. - Johan Schalkwyk; Etienne Barnard; Jeffrey R. Sachs (ICASSP (1), 1994)

Language identification of six languages based on a common set of broad phonemes. - Kay M. Berkling; Etienne Barnard (ICSLP, 1994)

A comparative study of optimization techniques for backpropagation. - Etienne Barnard; Johann E. W. Holm (Neurocomputing, 1994)

Reviewing automatic language identification. - Yeshwant K. Muthusamy; Etienne Barnard; Ronald A. Cole (IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 1994)

A model for nonpolynomial decrease in error rate with increasing sample size. - Etienne Barnard (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1994)

An approach to automatic language identification based on language-dependent phone recognition. - Yonghong Yan 002; Etienne Barnard (ICASSP, 1995)

Theoretical error prediction for a language identification system using optimal phoneme clustering. - Kay M. Berkling; Etienne Barnard (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

Transition-based feature extraction within frame-based recognition. - Zhihong Hu; Etienne Barnard; Ronald A. Cole (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

Robust, n-best formant tracking. - Philipp Schmid; Etienne Barnard (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

An approach to language identification with enhanced language model. - Yonghong Yan 002; Etienne Barnard (EUROSPEECH, 1995)

Process modeling with the regression network. - Tjaart van der Walt; Etienne Barnard; Jamie van Deventer (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1995)

Experiments for an approach to language identification with conversational telephone speech. - Yonghong Yan 002; Etienne Barnard (ICASSP, 1996)

Creating speaker-specific phonetic templates with a speaker-independent phonetic recognizer: implications for voice dialing. - Neena Jain; Ronald A. Cole; Etienne Barnard (ICASSP, 1996)

Speaker verification with low storage requirements. - Johan Schalkwyk; Neena Jain; Etienne Barnard (ICASSP, 1996)

Language identification with inaccurate string matching. - Kay M. Berkling; Etienne Barnard (ICSLP, 1996)

Speech recognition using syllable-like units. - Zhihong Hu; Johan Schalkwyk; Etienne Barnard; Ronald A. Cole (ICSLP, 1996)

Phone clustering using the bhattacharyya distance. - Brian Mak; Etienne Barnard (ICSLP, 1996)

Improved probability estimation with neural network models. - Wei Wei; Etienne Barnard; Mark A. Fanty (ICSLP, 1996)

Development of an approach to automatic language identification based on phone recognition. - Yonghong Yan 002; Etienne Barnard; Ronald A. Cole (Comput. Speech Lang., 1996)

Feature-based classification of aerospace radar targets using neural networks. - Elizabeth C. Botha; Etienne Barnard; Charl J. Barnard (Neural Networks, 1996)

Smoothness analysis for trajectory features. - Zhihong Hu; Etienne Barnard (ICASSP, 1997)

Explicit, N-best formant features for vowel classification. - Philipp Schmid; Etienne Barnard (ICASSP, 1997)

Efficient estimation of perceptual features for speech recognition. - Zhihong Hu; Etienne Barnard (EUROSPEECH, 1997)

On the asymmetry in the PSD for 2-D linear prediction. - Johann W. Odendaal; Etienne Barnard; Carl W. I. Pistorius (Signal Process., 1997)

Toward new language adaptation for language identification. - Etienne Barnard; Yonghong Yan 002 (Speech Commun., 1997)

A Fast Histogram-Based Postprocessor That Improves Posterior Probability Estimates. - Wei Wei; Todd K. Leen; Etienne Barnard (Neural Comput., 1999)

Language and Technology Literacy Barriers to Accessing Government Services. - Etienne Barnard; Laurens Cloete; Hina Patel (EGOV, 2003)

Initial Experiments on the Effectiveness of Telephone Access to Government Services. - Laurens Cloete; Etienne Barnard; Hina Patel (EGOV, 2004)

The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: machine learning factors during bootstrapping. - Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: human factors during bootstrapping. - Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2004)

Technology in Support of Accessible eGovernment. - Laurens Cloete; Hina Patel; Louis Coetzee; Etienne Barnard (EGOV (Workshops and Posters), 2005)

Bootstrapping pronunciation dictionaries: practical issues. - Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Fundamental frequency and tone in isizulu: initial experiments. - Natasha Govender; Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel (INTERSPEECH, 2005)

Developing consistent pronunciation models for phonemic variants. - Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2006)

Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data. - Marius Peche; Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2007)

Durations of Context-Dependent Phonemes: A New Feature in Speaker Verification. - Charl Johannes van Heerden; Etienne Barnard (Speaker Classification (2), 2007)

Pitch modelling for the Nguni languages. - Natasha Govender; Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel (South Afr. Comput. J., 2007)

Applying Topic Modeling to Forensic Data. - Alta de Waal; Jacobus Venter; Etienne Barnard (IFIP Int. Conf. Digital Forensics, 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 (HCIS, 2008)

Influences on tone in Sepedi, a southern Bantu language. - Sabine Zerbian; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

The utility of spoken dialog systems. - Etienne Barnard; Madelaine Plauché; Marelie H. Davel (SLT, 2008)

Pronunciation prediction with Default&Refine. - Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (Comput. Speech Lang., 2008)

Naive Bayesian classifiers for multinomial features: a theoretical analysis. - Ewald van Dyk; Etienne Barnard (South Afr. Comput. J., 2008)

Speaker-specific variability of phoneme durations. - Charl Johannes van Heerden; 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)

Guest editorial: pattern recognition especial edition. - Jules-Raymond Tapamo; Etienne Barnard (South Afr. Comput. J., 2008)

Multilingual speaker age recognition: Regression analyses on the Lwazi corpus. - Michael Feld; Etienne Barnard; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Christian A. Müller (ASRU, 2009)

HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: Touchtone vs. speech. - Aditi Sharma Grover; Madelaine Plauché; Etienne Barnard; Christiaan Kuun (ICTD, 2009)

ASR corpus design for resource-scarce languages. - Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel; Charl Johannes van Heerden (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Basic speech recognition for spoken dialogues. - Charl Johannes van Heerden; Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages. - Daniel R. van Niekerk; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2009)

Continuous speech recognition with sparse coding. - W. J. Smit; Etienne Barnard (Comput. Speech Lang., 2009)

Speech Technology for Information Access: a South African Case Study. - Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel; Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen (AAAI Spring Symposium: Artificial Intelligence for Development, 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 (ICASSP, 2010)

Voice search for development. - Etienne Barnard; Johan Schalkwyk; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Pedro J. Moreno 001 (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

An intonation model for TTS in sepedi. - Daniel R. van Niekerk; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2010)

From tone to pitch in Sepedi. - Etienne Barnard; Sabine Zerbian (SLTU, 2010)

Pooling ASR data for closely related languages. - Charl Johannes van Heerden; Neil Kleynhans; Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel (SLTU, 2010)

Efficient Harvesting of Internet Audio for Resource-Scarce ASR. - Marelie H. Davel; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Neil Kleynhans; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 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 (INTERSPEECH, 2011)

Efficiency measurements in IVR systems for oral users: consequences of differences in educational levels. - Tembalethu Jama Ndwe; Etienne Barnard; Renee Koen; Bryan McAlister (SAICSIT, 2011)

The Lwazi community communication service: design and piloting of a voice-based information service. - Aditi Sharma Grover; Etienne Barnard (WWW (Companion Volume), 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)

Determination and the No-Free-Lunch Paradox. - Etienne Barnard (Neural Comput., 2011)

A voice service for user feedback on school meals. - Aditi Sharma Grover; Karen Calteaux; Etienne Barnard; Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen (ACM DEV, 2012)

The Spoken Web Search Task. - Florian Metze; Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Xavier Anguera; Guillaume Gravier; Nitendra Rajput (MediaEval, 2012)

Effects of application type on the choice of interaction modality in IVR systems. - Tembalethu Jama Ndwe; Etienne Barnard; Mqhele E. Dlodlo (SAICSIT, 2012)

Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora. - Marelie H. Davel; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Etienne Barnard (SLTU, 2012)

Medium-vocabulary speech recognition for under-resourced languages. - Charl Johannes van Heerden; Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (SLTU, 2012)

Tone realisation in a yorùbá speech recognition corpus. - Daniel R. van Niekerk; Etienne Barnard (SLTU, 2012)

Wolof Speech Recognition Model of Digits and Limited-Vocabulary Based on HMM and ToolKit. - James K. Tamgno; Etienne Barnard; Claude Lishou; Morgan Richomme (UKSim, 2012)

Factors that affect the accuracy of text-based language identification. - Gerrit Reinier Botha; Etienne Barnard (Comput. Speech Lang., 2012)

Consequences of deploying culturally inclined earcons in speech technology design for oral users in South Africa. - Tembalethu Jama Ndwe; Etienne Barnard (ACM DEV (3), 2013)

The spoken web search task at MediaEval 2012. - Florian Metze; Xavier Anguera; Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel; Guillaume Gravier (ICASSP, 2013)

G2p variant prediction techniques for ASR and STD. - Marelie H. Davel; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá. - Daniel R. van Niekerk; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2013)

A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS. - Daniel R. van Niekerk; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2014)

The NCHLT speech corpus of the South African languages. - Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Febe de Wet; Jaco Badenhorst (SLTU, 2014)

Speech data collection in an under-resourced language within a multilingual context. - Raymond Molapo; Etienne Barnard; Febe de Wet (SLTU, 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)

Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages. - Laurent Besacier; Etienne Barnard; Alexey Karpov 001; Tanja Schultz (Speech Commun., 2014)

Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey. - Laurent Besacier; Etienne Barnard; Alexey Karpov 001; Tanja Schultz (Speech Commun., 2014)

Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis. - Daniel R. van Niekerk; Etienne Barnard (Speech Commun., 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)

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 (INTERSPEECH, 2015)

Efficient data selection for ASR. - Neil Taylor Kleynhans; Etienne Barnard (Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2015)

Variable Kernel Density Estimation in High-Dimensional Feature Spaces. - Christiaan Maarten van der Walt; Etienne Barnard (AAAI, 2017)

ReLU and sigmoidal activation functions. - Arnold M. Pretorius; Etienne Barnard; Marelie H. Davel (FAIR, 2019)

Insights regarding overfitting on noise in deep learning. - Marthinus W. Theunissen; Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (FAIR, 2019)

DNNs as Layers of Cooperating Classifiers. - Marelie H. Davel; Marthinus W. Theunissen; Arnold M. Pretorius; Etienne Barnard (AAAI, 2020)

Language Modeling for Speech Analytics in Under-Resourced Languages. - Simone Wills; Pieter Uys; Charl Johannes van Heerden; Etienne Barnard (INTERSPEECH, 2020)

Benign interpolation of noise in deep learning. - Marthinus Wilhelmus Theunissen; Marelie H. Davel; Etienne Barnard (South Afr. Comput. J., 2020)

Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance. - Ruan van der Merwe; Gregory Newman; Etienne Barnard (CoRR, 2022)

Minimum phase finite impulse response filter design. - Jan C. Olivier; Etienne Barnard (IET Signal Process., 2023)