Western cape english dialect

[JRMeyer]

>>> Florian_Kroll
[May 15, 2020, 4:47pm]

Hi, I just managed to install and run Deepspeech to transcribe an
hour-long interview with an official in the Western Cape, South Africa.
The accent is strong, and the inference output made for some pretty wild
reading. So much so that I think it might be quicker to ask a student to
do it manually than to read through this and fix it...so... are there
models based on South African or Western Cape English that will produce
something more sensible? Or is there a way to train the programme to
transcribe more accurately?

[This is an archived TTS discussion thread from discourse.mozilla.org/t/western-cape-english-dialect]

[JRMeyer]

>>> lissyx
[May 15, 2020, 5:56pm]

> Or is there a way to train the programme to transcribe more
> accurately?

Do you have South African / Western Cape English data?

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[JRMeyer]

>>> Florian_Kroll
[May 18, 2020, 7:53am]

If you mean a database with a model of Western Cape speech, I don't have
one. I may be able to source something from relevant linguistics
departments at local universities, but wouldn't know who to approach.

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[Driaan]

@JRMeyer Just curious, who did you speak to? (UWC Student here)