Browsing Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Yorùbá"
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Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yoruba for tone realisation in speech synthesis
(Elsevier, 2014)Pitch is a fundamental acoustic feature of speech and as such needs to be determined during the process of speech synthesis. While a range of communicative functions are attributed to pitch variation in speech of all ... -
A target Approximation Intonation Model for Yorùbá TTS
(ISCA, 2014)A complete intonation model based on quantitative target approximation is described for Yorùbá text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. This model is evaluated analytically and perceptually and compared to a fundamental frequency ... -
Tone realisation in a Yorùbá speech recognition corpus
(SLTU, 2012)We investigate the acoustic realisation of tone in short continuous utterances in Yorùbá. Fundamental frequency (F0) contours are extracted for automatically aligned syllables from a speech corpus of 33 speakers collected ...