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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering

Barnard, E

BIng(Pret), BSc(Hons), MSc(Witwatersrand), Ph.D (Carnegie Mellon University) - Professor

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Telephone number: 012 420 2981
Fax number: 012 362 5115
E-mail address: ebarnard@eng.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Pattern recognition and speech technology

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Davel M, Barnard E: 2005. Bootstrapping for the efficient development of pronunciation dictionaries. Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers/ Handelinge van die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut van Elektriese Ingenieurs, 96 (1) / Mar, pp 6-10.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Cloete L, Patel H, Coetzee L, Barnard E: 2005. Technology Support of Accessible eGovernment. In Fourth International EGOV Conference, Trauner Verlag, pp 249-255.

Davel M, Barnard E: 2005. Bootstrapping Pronunciation Dictionaries: Practical Issues. In Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech: Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Wiley, pp 1561-1564.

Govender N, Barnard E, Davel M: 2005. Fundamental Frequency and Tone in isiZulu: Initial Experiments. In Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech: Ninth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Wiley, pp 1417-1420.

Kuun C, Zimu V, Barnard E, Davel M: 2005. Statistical investigations into isiZulu intonation. In Proceedings of the16th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Prasa, pp 111-115.

Davel M, Barnard E: 2005. Obtaining a minimal set of rewrite rules. In Proceedings of the16th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Prasa, pp 139-144.

Govender N, Barnard E, Davel M: 2005. Developing Intonation Corpora for isiXhosa and isiZulu. In Proceedings of the16th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Prasa, pp 129-132.

Kleynhans NT, Barnard E: 2005. Language dependence in multilingual speaker verification. In Proceedings of the16th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Prasa, pp 117-121.

Barnard E, Van Heerden C: 2005. Using timing information in speaker verification. In Proceedings of the16th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Prasa, pp 53-57.

 

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