Syllabification for Afrikaans speech synthesis
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Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Mechatronics International Conference
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This paper describes the continuing development of
a pronunciation resource for speech synthesis of Afrikaans by
augmenting an existing pronunciation dictionary to include syllable
boundaries and stress. Furthermore, different approaches
for grapheme to phoneme conversion and syllabification derived
from the dictionary are evaluated. Cross-validation experiments
suggest that joint sequence models are effective at directly
modelling pronunciations including syllable boundaries. Finally,
some informal observations and demonstrations are presented
regarding the integration of this work into a typical text-to-speech
system.
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Daniel van Niekerk, “Syllabification for Afrikaans speech synthesis”, in Proc. Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech), pp 31-36, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2016. [http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/multilingual-speech-technologies-must/publications]