Global awareness is in the spotlight on Earth Day, which is celebrated annually on 22 April and aims to highlight humanity’s role in protecting the planet. To mark Earth Day …
There has been a growing interest recently in developing automatic speech recognition (ASR) for under-resourced languages. In our previous article, it was established that in societies with a steady internet …
In societies with good internet connectivity, social media is a prevalent communication tool. However, where connectivity is insufficient or absent, radio stations that host phone-in talk shows become a popular …
Despite increasing global interconnectivity, radio remains a primary source of information for many communities in the developing world, including those in some parts of rural Africa. Because radio is accessible …
The Digital Signal Processing (DSP) research group at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University recently published their research on deep neural network-based cough detection using bed-mounted accelerometer measurements. …
As a result of exceedingly rapid growth in the solar energy market, at least 114,9 GW of photovoltaic (PV) systems have been installed and commissioned globally in 2019. As a …
