| dc.contributor.author | Van Niekerk, Daniel R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barnard, Etienne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-05T13:54:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-05T13:54:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | D Van Niekerk, Etienne Barnard, “Tone realisation in a Yorùbá corpus”, in Proc. Int. Workshop Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU), pp 54-59, Cape Town, South Africa, 2012. [http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/multilingual-speech-technologies-must/publications] | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/bitstream/handle/10204/5885/VanNiekerk_2012.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/26521 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We investigate the acoustic realisation of tone in short continuous
utterances in Yor`ub´a. Fundamental frequency (F0) contours
are extracted for automatically aligned syllables from
a speech corpus of 33 speakers collected for speech recognition
development. Extracted contours are processed and analysed
statistically to describe acoustic properties in different
tonal contexts. We demonstrate how features useful for tone
recognition or synthesis can be successfully extracted from a
corpus of this nature and confirm some previously described
phenomena in this context. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | It is a pleasure to thank Prof. Brian Mak at the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology for his hospitality and
constructive discussions during a visit to Hong Kong, where
much of this work was done. The authors would also like to thank Oluwapelumi Giwa for assistance with regard to the
speech corpus. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Workshop Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Yor`ub´a | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tone language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fundamental frequency | en_US |
| dc.title | Tone realisation in a Yorùbá corpus | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |
