2 code implementations • 9 Nov 2018 • Ryan Eloff, Herman A. Engelbrecht, Herman Kamper
Imagine a robot is shown new concepts visually together with spoken tags, e. g. "milk", "eggs", "butter".
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2019 • Ryan Eloff, André Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Avashna Govender, Leanne Nortje, Arnu Pretorius, Elan van Biljon, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper
For our submission to the ZeroSpeech 2019 challenge, we apply discrete latent-variable neural networks to unlabelled speech and use the discovered units for speech synthesis.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Jeanne E. Daniel, Willie Brink, Ryan Eloff, Charles Copley
We discuss ongoing work into automating a multilingual digital helpdesk service available via text messaging to pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in South Africa.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2019 • Arnu Pretorius, Elan van Biljon, Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan Eloff, Matthew Reynard, Steve James, Benjamin Rosman, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon
Our results therefore suggest that, in the shallow-to-moderate depth setting, critical initialisation provides zero performance gains when compared to off-critical initialisations and that searching for off-critical initialisations that might improve training speed or generalisation, is likely to be a fruitless endeavour.