van Niekerk, Daniël R.Barnard, Etienne2016-05-172016-05-172014Van Niekerk, D.R. et al. 2014. A target Approximation Intonation Model for Yorùbá TTS (In: 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Singapore, Hong Kong, September 14-18, 2014. p. 36-40).1990-9770http://hdl.handle.net/10394/17280A 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 (F0) model using the standard HTS implementation. Analytical results suggest that the proposed approach more efficiently models F0 contours given typical data constraints in under-resourced environments and perceptual results comparing the proposed model with HTS are encouraging.enSpeech synthesisText-to-speechIntonation modelTarget approximationTone languageYorùbáUnderresourcedPresentation