Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Human Language Technologies for Under-Resourced African Languages: Design, Challenges, and Prospects

Human Language Technologies for Under-Resourced African Languages: Design, Challenges, and Prospects

Ekpenyong, Moses Effiong

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Speech Technology

LinguisticsTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 331969958X
ISBN13: 9783319699585
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 1 2018
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book provides an overview of a recent and flexible approach to speech synthesis design to develop the first statistical parametric speech synthesizer for Ibibio, a West African tonal language. The design precludes the inflexibility encountered when modeling tonal features of the language and can be used for other tonal African languages. Mobile use and technological innovations in developing African nations have exploded. With mobile technology, many of the barriers caused by infrastructure issues have vanished. In order to address issues that are unique to African tonal languages, the book uses Ibibio as a model. The text reviews the language's speech characteristics, required for building the front end components of the design and propose a finite state transducer (FST), useful for modelling the language's tonetactics. The statistical parametric approach discussed in the text, implements the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) technique, with the goal of creating a generic structure thatlearns the model from the text itself, and uses the data-driven approach to input specification.

Also in

Technology & Engineering

View All