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Text-to-speech technology offers youngster a suitable voice
Text-to-speech technology offers youngster a suitable voice In May this year, Carte Blanche aired a programme on text-to-speech (TTS) technology and voice banking which featured an insert on Alexander Avenant, a learner at New Hope School in Pretoria. Alexander, at that stage, used the CSIR’s Qfrency adult male Afrikaans TTS voice with augmentative and alternative communication software,…
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SADiLaR visits with European CLARIN centres
SADiLaR visits with European CLARIN centres Over the course of September and October, SADiLaR’s technical manager, Dr Roald Eiselen, visited with various European centres that form part of the Common Language Resource Infrastructure (CLARIN). The aim of the visits was to establish connections that will lead to future cooperation and collaboration with entities performing activities…
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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
Celebration of South African languages Language forms the heart and soul of communication, traditions, social integration, and education. Language also plays a vital role in representing various cultures and traditions, as well as capturing the history of a community. There are more than 6000 languages spoken in the world, but, at this very moment, many…
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University of South Africa (UNISA): Language Resource Development Node
https://youtu.be/JL77Yvmq610 South Africa, with its rich diversity of eleven official languages, is a potential emerging market where language technology (LT) applications can contribute to the promotion of multilingualism and language development, and as such have a positive impact on the South African community. But for effective LT applications in South Africa’s indigenous languages key language…
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CSIR Meraka Institute (Voice Computing (VC) Research Group)
The CSIR Meraka Institute focuses on shaping South Africa’s digital future and is known for the research, development and innovation in the information and communication technology sector. Within the Institute, the Voice Computing (VC) Research Group focuses on solving communication challenges that South Africa face as a result of the lack of language resources and data. The…
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Integrating the RMA into SADiLaR with new technologies
Over the past five years the Language Resource Management Agency (RMA) has been the central repository for the distribution and management of language resources, data and software tools, for the official languages of South Africa. The RMA has provided an excellent foundation for SADiLaR to build on. With the knowledge and skills obtained from the…
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SADiLaR launches a new website and data repository
SADiLaR is excited to announce the launch of our website, which sets the foundation for us in our expanding role as African leader in the digital humanities (DH) and natural language processing (NLP) domains. The website offers users an overview of the various activities at SADiLaR, including our vision and mission, our strategic goals, as…
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Establishing a new infrastructure
English can be regarded as the de facto language of the digital age due to the rapid development of the internet and communication technology over the last three decades. However, speakers of other languages have taken up the challenge and there has been a concerted effort to develop digital tools and other resources in languages…
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SADiLaR Projects and Activities
Activities 2024 Conference presentations 1. AFRILEX – Role of SADiLaR: advice on formats, backups, licensing, software, platforms; Community of Practice – Reflections (Mr Juan Steyn and Dr Friedel Wolff) – PDF Presentation 2. AFRILEX – Making sense of kuningi using a corpus linguistic analysis (Prof Langa Khumalo) – PDF Presentation 3. AFRILEX – Corpus-based dictionaries…
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Call for proposals
SADiLaR call for new project proposals The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources is excited to announce that a call for proposals has been launched and submissions opened on 31 January 2018. This is an opportunity to participate in the development infrastructure and play a significant role in the development of language resources and…
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