Daniel van Niekerk

University of South Africa — South Africa

Computer Science · Physical Sciences

18h-index1.4kcitations75works0.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Speech Recognition and Synthesis(23), Phonetics and Phonology Research(22), Natural Language Processing Techniques(15), Speech and dialogue systems(15), Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes(13)

Publications74 total

RAG Evaluation: From Model-Centric Benchmarks to System-Level Metrics
Communications in computer and information science·2025
Learnability of English diphthongs: One dynamic target vs. two static targets
Speech Communication·2025
TrueReason: An Exemplar Personalised Learning System Integrating Reasoning with Foundational Models
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
In Pursuit for the Best Error Metric for Optimisation of Articulatory Vowel Synthesis
Lecture notes in computer science·2024
Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak
Journal of Phonetics·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Self-Supervised Solution to the Control Problem of Articulatory Synthesis
2023· 2 cited
Simulating vocal learning of spoken language: Beyond imitation
Speech Communication·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Artificial Vocal Learning Guided by Phoneme Recognition and Visual Information
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing·2023· 6 cited
Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets
Interspeech 2022·2022· 3 cited
Articulatory Synthesis for Data Augmentation in Phoneme Recognition
Interspeech 2022·2022· 5 cited
Artificial Vocal Learning guided by Phoneme Recognition and Visual Information
2022Open Access
Artificial Vocal Learning guided by Phoneme Recognition and Visual Information
2022Open Access
Modelling English diphthongs with dynamic articulatory targets
2022· 1 cited
Exploration strategies for articulatory synthesis of complex syllable onsets
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022Open Access
Generalising Service Interactions in the BASE Architecture for Holonic Manufacturing Systems
Studies in computational intelligence·2022
Model-Based Exploration of Linking Between Vowel Articulatory Space and Acoustic Space
2021
Modelling microprosodic effects can lead to an audible improvement in articulatory synthesis
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2021· 7 cited
Chemical Composition and Fractional Crystallization of IIIF Iron Meteorites
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference·2021
Finding Intelligible Consonant-Vowel Sounds Using High-Quality Articulatory Synthesis
2020· 8 citedOpen Access
Evaluating Features and Metrics for High-Quality Simulation of Early Vocal Learning of Vowels
arXiv (Cornell University)·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jonathan P. Mathews(12), Hein W.J.P. Neomagus(9), Anqi Xu(9), Branislav Gerazov(9), Paul Konstantin Krug(9), Peter Birkholz(9), John R. Bunt(8), Etienne Barnard(8), Yi Xu(6), Raymond C. Everson(5), Christien A. Strydom(4), Mokone J. Roberts(3), Burgert B. Hattingh(3), Leon Roets(3), Charl van Heerden(3), Marelie H. Davel(3), Yi Xu(3), Gregory N. Okolo(2), Marcos Millán(2), Neil Kleynhans(2)