About Project

Many of South African languages have different speaking styles called accents or dialects.Identification of the accent is crucial in Automatic Speech Recognition so that we can improve speech recognition systems. This research aim to recognize different accents when English is spoken. When an afrikaans speaking person or Xhosa speaking person etc, speaks into the system it should then be able to recognize their accent and specify whether the user is Xhosa or Afrikaans speaking person etc..