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San Francisco English and the California vowel shift

San Francisco English has been previously identified as distinct from Californian English, based on its maintenance of a low back vowel distinction [13]. Subsequent work has shown participation in the low back merger and other Californian sound changes [15]. We present an analysis of the front and central vowels involved in the California Vowel Shift: KIT, DRESS, TRAP, and STRUT. Previous work ...

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Rapid development of an Afrikaans-English speech-to-speech translator

In this paper we investigate the rapid deployment of a twoway Afrikaans to English Speech-to-Speech Translation system. We discuss the approaches and amount of work involved to port a system to a new language pair, i.e. the steps required to rapidly adapt ASR, MT and TTS component to Afrikaans under limited time and data constraints. The resulting system represents the first prototype built for...

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