Etienne Barnard

113 papers A* 2A 19B 1C 2Misc 8Journal 41Unranked 39

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2023	J	`jnl`	Minimum phase finite impulse response filter design. IET Signal Process. Jan C. Olivier, Etienne Barnard
2022	J	`jnl`	Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance. CoRR Ruan van der Merwe, Gregory Newman, Etienne Barnard
2020	J	`jnl`	Benign interpolation of noise in deep learning. South Afr. Comput. J. Marthinus Wilhelmus Theunissen, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2020	A*	`conf`	DNNs as Layers of Cooperating Classifiers. AAAI Marelie H. Davel, Marthinus W. Theunissen, Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard
2020	J	`jnl`	DNNs as Layers of Cooperating Classifiers. CoRR Marelie H. Davel, Marthinus W. Theunissen, Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard
2020	A	`conf`	Language Modeling for Speech Analytics in Under-Resourced Languages. INTERSPEECH Simone Wills, Pieter Uys, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard
2020	—	`ed.`	Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research, Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 December, 2019. FAIR Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2019	—	`conf`	Insights regarding overfitting on noise in deep learning. FAIR Marthinus W. Theunissen, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2019	—	`conf`	ReLU and sigmoidal activation functions. FAIR Arnold M. Pretorius, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel
2017	A*	`conf`	Variable Kernel Density Estimation in High-Dimensional Feature Spaces. AAAI Christiaan Maarten van der Walt, Etienne Barnard
2015	J	`jnl`	Efficient data selection for ASR. Lang. Resour. Evaluation Neil Taylor Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard
2015	A	`conf`	Exploring minimal pronunciation modeling for low resource languages. INTERSPEECH Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard, Charl Johannes van Heerden, William Hartmann, Damianos G. Karakos, Richard M. Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis
2014	J	`jnl`	A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages. Speech Commun. Nic J. de Vries, Marelie H. Davel, Jaco Badenhorst, Willem D. Basson, Febe de Wet, Etienne Barnard, Alta de Waal
2014	A	`conf`	A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2014	J	`jnl`	Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey. Speech Commun. Laurent Besacier, Etienne Barnard, Alexey Karpov, Tanja Schultz
2014	J	`jnl`	Introduction to the special issue on processing under-resourced languages. Speech Commun. Laurent Besacier, Etienne Barnard, Alexey Karpov, Tanja Schultz
2014	J	`jnl`	Language independent search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search task. Comput. Speech Lang. Florian Metze, Xavier Anguera, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Guillaume Gravier
2014	J	`jnl`	Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis. Speech Commun. Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2014	—	`conf`	Speech data collection in an under-resourced language within a multilingual context. SLTU Raymond Molapo, Etienne Barnard, Febe de Wet
2014	—	`conf`	The NCHLT speech corpus of the South African languages. SLTU Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Febe de Wet, Jaco Badenhorst
2013	—	`conf`	Consequences of deploying culturally inclined earcons in speech technology design for oral users in South Africa. ACM DEV (3) Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard
2013	A	`conf`	G2p variant prediction techniques for ASR and STD. INTERSPEECH Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard
2013	A	`conf`	Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2013	Misc	`conf`	The spoken web search task at MediaEval 2012. ICASSP Florian Metze, Xavier Anguera, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Guillaume Gravier
2012	—	`conf`	A voice service for user feedback on school meals. ACM DEV Aditi Sharma Grover, Karen Calteaux, Etienne Barnard, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen
2012	—	`conf`	Effects of application type on the choice of interaction modality in IVR systems. SAICSIT Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Mqhele E. Dlodlo
2012	J	`jnl`	Factors that affect the accuracy of text-based language identification. Comput. Speech Lang. Gerrit Reinier Botha, Etienne Barnard
2012	—	`conf`	Medium-vocabulary speech recognition for under-resourced languages. SLTU Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2012	—	`conf`	The Spoken Web Search Task. MediaEval Florian Metze, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Xavier Anguera, Guillaume Gravier, Nitendra Rajput
2012	—	`conf`	Tone realisation in a yorùbá speech recognition corpus. SLTU Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2012	—	`conf`	Validating smartphone-collected speech corpora. SLTU Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard
2012	—	`conf`	Wolof Speech Recognition Model of Digits and Limited-Vocabulary Based on HMM and ToolKit. UKSim James K. Tamgno, Etienne Barnard, Claude Lishou, Morgan Richomme
2011	J	`jnl`	Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages. Lang. Resour. Evaluation Jaco Badenhorst, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2011	J	`jnl`	Determination and the No-Free-Lunch Paradox. Neural Comput. Etienne Barnard
2011	—	`conf`	Efficiency measurements in IVR systems for oral users: consequences of differences in educational levels. SAICSIT Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Renee Koen, Bryan McAlister
2011	A	`conf`	Efficient Harvesting of Internet Audio for Resource-Scarce ASR. INTERSPEECH Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Neil Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard
2011	—	`conf`	The Lwazi community communication service: design and piloting of a voice-based information service. WWW (Companion Volume) Aditi Sharma Grover, Etienne Barnard
2011	A	`conf`	Woefzela - An Open-Source Platform for ASR Data Collection in the Developing World. INTERSPEECH Nic J. de Vries, Jaco Badenhorst, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard, Alta de Waal
2010	A	`conf`	An intonation model for TTS in sepedi. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2010	Misc	`conf`	Combining regression and classification methods for improving automatic speaker age recognition. ICASSP Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Christiaan van der Walt, Ewald van Dyk, Michael Feld, Christian A. Müller
2010	—	`conf`	From tone to pitch in Sepedi. SLTU Etienne Barnard, Sabine Zerbian
2010	—	`conf`	Pooling ASR data for closely related languages. SLTU Charl Johannes van Heerden, Neil Kleynhans, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel
2010	—	`conf`	Speech Technology for Information Access: a South African Case Study. AAAI Spring Symposium: Artificial Intelligence for Development Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen
2010	A	`conf`	Voice search for development. INTERSPEECH Etienne Barnard, Johan Schalkwyk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Pedro J. Moreno
2009	A	`conf`	ASR corpus design for resource-scarce languages. INTERSPEECH Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel, Charl Johannes van Heerden
2009	A	`conf`	Basic speech recognition for spoken dialogues. INTERSPEECH Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel
2009	J	`jnl`	Continuous speech recognition with sparse coding. Comput. Speech Lang. W. J. Smit, Etienne Barnard
2009	C	`conf`	HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: Touchtone vs. speech. ICTD Aditi Sharma Grover, Madelaine Plauché, Etienne Barnard, Christiaan Kuun
2009	C	`conf`	Multilingual speaker age recognition: Regression analyses on the Lwazi corpus. ASRU Michael Feld, Etienne Barnard, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Christian A. Müller
2009	A	`conf`	Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages. INTERSPEECH Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
2008	—	`conf`	Applying Topic Modeling to Forensic Data. IFIP Int. Conf. Digital Forensics Alta de Waal, Jacobus Venter, Etienne Barnard
2008	J	`jnl`	Guest editorial: pattern recognition especial edition. South Afr. Comput. J. Jules-Raymond Tapamo, Etienne Barnard
2008	A	`conf`	Influences on tone in Sepedi, a southern Bantu language. INTERSPEECH Sabine Zerbian, Etienne Barnard
2008	J	`jnl`	Naive Bayesian classifiers for multinomial features: a theoretical analysis. South Afr. Comput. J. Ewald van Dyk, Etienne Barnard
2008	—	`conf`	Openphone User Engagement and Requirements Solicitation in Low Literacy Users. HCIS Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Mqhele E. Dlodlo, Daniel J. Mashao, Christiaan Kuun, Aditi Sharma Grover
2008	J	`jnl`	Pronunciation prediction with Default&Refine. Comput. Speech Lang. Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2008	J	`jnl`	Speaker-specific variability of phoneme durations. South Afr. Comput. J. Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard
2008	J	`jnl`	Speech-based emotion detection in a resource-scarce environment. South Afr. Comput. J. Olga Martirosian, Etienne Barnard
2008	—	`conf`	The utility of spoken dialog systems. SLT Etienne Barnard, Madelaine Plauché, Marelie H. Davel
2007	—	`conf`	Durations of Context-Dependent Phonemes: A New Feature in Speaker Verification. Speaker Classification (2) Charl Johannes van Heerden, Etienne Barnard
2007	A	`conf`	Phonotactic spoken language identification with limited training data. INTERSPEECH Marius Peche, Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2007	J	`jnl`	Pitch modelling for the Nguni languages. South Afr. Comput. J. Natasha Govender, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel
2006	A	`conf`	Developing consistent pronunciation models for phonemic variants. INTERSPEECH Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2005	A	`conf`	Bootstrapping pronunciation dictionaries: practical issues. INTERSPEECH Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2005	A	`conf`	Fundamental frequency and tone in isizulu: initial experiments. INTERSPEECH Natasha Govender, Etienne Barnard, Marelie H. Davel
2005	—	`conf`	Technology in Support of Accessible eGovernment. EGOV (Workshops and Posters) Laurens Cloete, Hina Patel, Louis Coetzee, Etienne Barnard
2004	—	`conf`	Initial Experiments on the Effectiveness of Telephone Access to Government Services. EGOV Laurens Cloete, Etienne Barnard, Hina Patel
2004	A	`conf`	The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: human factors during bootstrapping. INTERSPEECH Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2004	A	`conf`	The efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: machine learning factors during bootstrapping. INTERSPEECH Marelie H. Davel, Etienne Barnard
2003	—	`conf`	Language and Technology Literacy Barriers to Accessing Government Services. EGOV Etienne Barnard, Laurens Cloete, Hina Patel
1999	J	`jnl`	A Fast Histogram-Based Postprocessor That Improves Posterior Probability Estimates. Neural Comput. Wei Wei, Todd K. Leen, Etienne Barnard
1997	—	`conf`	Efficient estimation of perceptual features for speech recognition. EUROSPEECH Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard
1997	Misc	`conf`	Explicit, N-best formant features for vowel classification. ICASSP Philipp Schmid, Etienne Barnard
1997	J	`jnl`	On the asymmetry in the PSD for 2-D linear prediction. Signal Process. Johann W. Odendaal, Etienne Barnard, Carl W. I. Pistorius
1997	Misc	`conf`	Smoothness analysis for trajectory features. ICASSP Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard
1997	J	`jnl`	Toward new language adaptation for language identification. Speech Commun. Etienne Barnard, Yonghong Yan
1996	Misc	`conf`	Creating speaker-specific phonetic templates with a speaker-independent phonetic recognizer: implications for voice dialing. ICASSP Neena Jain, Ronald A. Cole, Etienne Barnard
1996	J	`jnl`	Development of an approach to automatic language identification based on phone recognition. Comput. Speech Lang. Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole
1996	Misc	`conf`	Experiments for an approach to language identification with conversational telephone speech. ICASSP Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard
1996	J	`jnl`	Feature-based classification of aerospace radar targets using neural networks. Neural Networks Elizabeth C. Botha, Etienne Barnard, Charl J. Barnard
1996	—	`conf`	Improved probability estimation with neural network models. ICSLP Wei Wei, Etienne Barnard, Mark A. Fanty
1996	—	`conf`	Language identification with inaccurate string matching. ICSLP Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard
1996	—	`conf`	Phone clustering using the bhattacharyya distance. ICSLP Brian Mak, Etienne Barnard
1996	Misc	`conf`	Speaker verification with low storage requirements. ICASSP Johan Schalkwyk, Neena Jain, Etienne Barnard
1996	—	`conf`	Speech recognition using syllable-like units. ICSLP Zhihong Hu, Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole
1995	Misc	`conf`	An approach to automatic language identification based on language-dependent phone recognition. ICASSP Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard
1995	—	`conf`	An approach to language identification with enhanced language model. EUROSPEECH Yonghong Yan, Etienne Barnard
1995	J	`jnl`	Process modeling with the regression network. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Tjaart van der Walt, Etienne Barnard, Jamie van Deventer
1995	—	`conf`	Robust, n-best formant tracking. EUROSPEECH Philipp Schmid, Etienne Barnard
1995	—	`conf`	Theoretical error prediction for a language identification system using optimal phoneme clustering. EUROSPEECH Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard
1995	—	`conf`	Transition-based feature extraction within frame-based recognition. EUROSPEECH Zhihong Hu, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole
1994	J	`jnl`	A comparative study of optimization techniques for backpropagation. Neurocomputing Etienne Barnard, Johann E. W. Holm
1994	J	`jnl`	A model for nonpolynomial decrease in error rate with increasing sample size. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Etienne Barnard
1994	—	`conf`	Analysis of phoneme-based features for language identification. ICASSP (1) Kay M. Berkling, Takayuki Arai, Etienne Barnard
1994	—	`conf`	Detecting an imposter in telephone speech. ICASSP (1) Johan Schalkwyk, Etienne Barnard, Jeffrey R. Sachs
1994	—	`conf`	Language identification of six languages based on a common set of broad phonemes. ICSLP Kay M. Berkling, Etienne Barnard
1994	J	`jnl`	Reviewing automatic language identification. IEEE Signal Process. Mag. Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole
1993	—	`conf`	A comparison of approaches to automatic language identification using telephone speech. EUROSPEECH Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Kay M. Berkling, Takayuki Arai, Ronald A. Cole, Etienne Barnard
1993	J	`jnl`	Backpropagation neural nets with one and two hidden layers. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Jacques de Villiers, Etienne Barnard
1993	J	`jnl`	Backpropagation uses prior information efficiently. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Etienne Barnard, Elizabeth C. Botha
1993	J	`jnl`	Related approaches to gradient-based thresholding. Pattern Recognit. Lett. A. M. Groenewald, Etienne Barnard, Elizabeth C. Botha
1993	J	`jnl`	Temporal-difference methods and Markov models. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Etienne Barnard
1992	J	`jnl`	Avoiding false local minima by proper initialization of connections. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Etienne Barnard
1992	J	`jnl`	Comments on 'Bayes statistical behavior and valid generalization of pattern classifying neural networks' [with reply]. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Etienne Barnard, Fumio Kanaya, Shigeki Miyake
1992	J	`jnl`	Optimization for training neural nets. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Etienne Barnard
1991	J	`jnl`	Invariance and neural nets. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent
1991	J	`jnl`	Performance and generalization of the classification figure of merit criterion function. IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Etienne Barnard
1991	J	`jnl`	Pitch detection with a neural-net classifier. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. Etienne Barnard, Ronald A. Cole, Mathew P. Vea, Fileno A. Alleva
1990	B	`conf`	Adaptive clustering neural net for piecewise nonlinear discriminant surfaces. IJCNN David P. Casasent, Etienne Barnard
1990	J	`jnl`	Shift invariance and the neocognitron. Neural Networks Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent
1989	J	`jnl`	A comparison between criterion functions for linear classifiers, with an application to neural nets. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent
1989	—	`conf`	Performance Comparisons Between Backpropagation Networks and Classification Trees on Three Real-World Applications. NIPS Les E. Atlas, Ronald A. Cole, Jerome T. Connor, Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Robert J. Marks II, Yeshwant K. Muthusamy, Etienne Barnard
1988	—	`conf`	Optical neural networks for image analysis: imaging spectroscopy and production systems. ICNN Elizabeth C. Botha, Etienne Barnard, David P. Casasent