The isimodeni style: traditional beadwork, Zulu trinket or South African sartorial tradition on Durban’s Golden Mile?

Phonetic analysis of Afrikaans, English, Xhosa and Zulu using South African speech databases

We present a corpus-based analysis of the Afrikaans, English, Xhosa and Zulu languages, comparing these in terms of phonetic content, diversity and mutual overlap. Our aim is to shed light on the fundamental phonetic interrelationships between these languages, with a view to furthering progress in multilingual automatic speech recognition in general, and in the South African region in particular.

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Language-dependent State Clustering for Multilingual Speech Recognition in Afrikaans, South African English, Xhosa and Zulu

The development of automatic speech recognition systems requires significant quantities of annotated acoustic data. In South Africa, the large number of spoken languages hampers such data collection efforts. Furthermore, code switching and mixing are commonplace since most citizens speak two or more languages fluently. As a result a considerable degree of phonetic cross pollination between lang...

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

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