Daniel R. van Niekerk

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2009-2023
Publications (10 Years): 12

Top Topics

Speech Synthesis

Spoken Term Detection

Top Venues

Publications

Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Lorna F. Halliday, Santitham Prom-on, Yi Xu
Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation. Speech Commun. 147 (2023)
Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Yi Xu
Self-Supervised Solution to the Control Problem of Articulatory Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2023)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets. CoRR (2022)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Yi Xu, Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Peter Birkholz, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Lorna F. Halliday
Evoc-Learn - High quality simulation of early vocal learning. INTERSPEECH (2022)
Anqi Xu, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Santitham Prom-on, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
Model-Based Exploration of Linking Between Vowel Articulatory Space and Acoustic Space. Interspeech (2021)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Branislav Gerazov, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
Finding Intelligible Consonant-Vowel Sounds Using High-Quality Articulatory Synthesis. INTERSPEECH (2020)
Branislav Gerazov, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Anqi Xu, Paul Konstantin Krug, Peter Birkholz, Yi Xu
Evaluating Features and Metrics for High-Quality Simulation of Early Vocal Learning of Vowels. CoRR (2020)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Marelie H. Davel, Neil Kleynhans, Oddur Kjartansson, Martin Jansche, Linne Ha
Rapid Development of TTS Corpora for Four South African Languages. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Peter Dirix, Liesbeth Augustinus, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Frank Van Eynde
Universal Dependencies for Afrikaans. UDW@NoDaLiDa (2017)
Liesbeth Augustinus, Peter Dirix, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank Van Eynde, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen
AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans. LREC (2016)
Neil Kleynhans, William Hartmann, Daniel R. van Niekerk, Charl Johannes van Heerden, Richard M. Schwartz, Stavros Tsakalidis, Marelie H. Davel
Code-switched English Pronunciation Modeling for Swahili Spoken Term Detection. SLTU (2016)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yorùbá for tone realisation in speech synthesis. Speech Commun. 56 (2014)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
A target approximation intonation model for yorùbá TTS. INTERSPEECH (2014)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in yorùbá. INTERSPEECH (2013)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
Tone realisation in a yorùbá speech recognition corpus. SLTU (2012)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
An intonation model for TTS in sepedi. INTERSPEECH (2010)
Daniel R. van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard
Phonetic alignment for speech synthesis in under-resourced languages. INTERSPEECH (2009)
Laurie L. Butgereit, Adele Botha, Daniel R. van Niekerk
Using Cell Phones to Improve Language Skills: The Hadeda Project. AFRICOM (2009)