| Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages DR Van Niekerk, E Barnard International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Rapid development of TTS corpora for four South African languages DR Van Niekerk, C van Heerden, N Kleynhans, O Kjartansson, ... Interspeech 2017, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Tone Realisation in a Yorùbá Speech Recognition Corpus DR Niekerk, E Barnard Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, 2012 | 21* | 2012 |
| Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis DR Van Niekerk, E Barnard Speech Communication 56, 229-242, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Using cell phones to improve language skills: The Hadeda Project L Butgereit, A Botha, D van Niekerk E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries: First …, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
| AfriBooms: An online treebank for Afrikaans L Augustinus, P Dirix, D Van Niekerk, I Schuurman, V Vandeghinste, ... Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and …, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| Lwazi II Final Report: Increasing the impact of speech technologies in South Africa KV Calteaux, F De Wet, C Moors, D Van Niekerk, B McAlister, AS Grover, ... CSIR, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Code-switched English pronunciation modeling for Swahili spoken term detection N Kleynhans, W Hartman, D Van Niekerk, C Van Heerden, R Schwartz, ... Procedia Computer Science 81, 128-135, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Universal dependencies for Afrikaans P Dirix, L Augustinus, D Van Niekerk, F Van Eynde Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW …, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Exploring unsupervised word segmentation for machine translation in the South African context DR Van Niekerk Proceedings of the 2014 PRASA, RobMech and AfLaT International Joint …, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Palatalisation of/s/in Afrikaans D Wissing, W Pienaar, D Van Niekerk Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 48, 137-158, 2015 | 8 | 2015 |
| Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation DR van Niekerk, A Xu, B Gerazov, PK Krug, P Birkholz, L Halliday, ... Speech Communication 147, 51-62, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
| Modelling microprosodic effects can lead to an audible improvement in articulatory synthesis PK Krug, B Gerazov, DR van Niekerk, A Xu, Y Xu, P Birkholz The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150 (2), 1209-1217, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Finding intelligible consonant-vowel sounds using high-quality articulatory synthesis DR van Niekerk, A Xu, B Gerazov, PK Krug, P Birkholz, Y Xu Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech …, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Lagos-NWU Yoruba speech corpus D van Niekerk, E Barnard, O Giwa, A Sosimi North-West University, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| Challenging Systematic Prejudices: An Investigation into Bias Against Women and Girls D Van Niekerk, M Peréz-Ortiz, J Shawe-Taylor, D Orlic, J Kay, N Siegel, ... UNESCO, IRCAI, 2024 | 6 | 2024 |
| Efficient exploration of articulatory dimensions PK Krug, P Birkholz, B Gerazov, DR van Niekerk, A Xu, Y Xu Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung …, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Introducing the Speect speech synthesis platform JA Louw, DR Van Niekerk, GI Schlünz Blizzard Challenge Workshop, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| Articulatory synthesis for data augmentation in phoneme recognition PK Krug, P Birkholz, B Gerazov, DR van Niekerk, A Xu, Y Xu Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech …, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Artificial vocal learning guided by phoneme recognition and visual information PK Krug, P Birkholz, B Gerazov, DR Van Niekerk, A Xu, Y Xu IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 31, 1734-1744, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
Etienne BarnardNorth-West University, South AfricaVerified email at nwu.ac.za
