Recent years have witnessed notable advancements in the areas of speech, speaker and
language/dialect recognition. However, many of the emerging scientific principles appear to …

Accent identification and classification pose a major challenge for speech recognition
systems, as various pronunciations of the same words by speakers of different races are …

Against the backdrop of the expansion of higher education in a postcolonial context, this
thesis develops a novel understanding of the everyday work that goes into enacting …

Nollywood, based on the idea of Bollywood from India, is a series of outstanding movies that
originate from Nigeria. Unfortunately, while the movies are in English, they are hard to …

The multi ethnic nature of Nigeria and its strong attachments to values and traditions makes
it unique among other African nations. The three main ethnic groups namely, Hausa, Igbo …

In the field of speech, speaker and language recognition, significant gains have and are
being made with new machine learning strategies along with the availability of new and …

Accent has been widely acclaimed to be a major source of automatic speech recognition
(ASR) performance degradation. Most ASR applications were developed with native English …