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Human language technologies for under-resourced African languages : design, challenges, and prospects
- Title
- Human language technologies for under-resourced African languages : design, challenges, and prospects / edited by Moses Effiong Ekpenyong.
- Publication
- Cham : Springer, 2018.
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- Additional Authors
- Ekpenyong, Moses Effiong
- Description
- 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 24 cm
- Summary
- 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?nite 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 that learns the model from the text itself, and uses the data-driven approach to input specification.
- Series Statement
- SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology
- Uniform Title
- SpringerBriefs in electrical and computer engineering. Speech technology.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Adaptive Template-Based Front End for Tone Language Speech Synthesis / Moses Effiong Ekpenyong -- Intra-Speaker Variability Assessment for Speaker Recognition in Degraded Conditions: A Case of African Tone Languages / Moses Effiong Ekpenyong, Udoinyang G. Inyang, Mercy E. Edoho, and Eno-Abasi E. Urua -- Towards Ontology-Driven Application for Multilingual Speech Language Therapy / Patience U. Usip and Moses Effiong Ekpenyong -- Ibibio Spoken-CALL System / Moses Effiong Ekpenyong, EmemObong O. Udoh, and Nseobong P. Uto.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 20-3104
- ISBN
- 9783319699585
- 331969958X
- OCLC
- 1064624118
- Title
- Human language technologies for under-resourced African languages : design, challenges, and prospects / edited by Moses Effiong Ekpenyong.
- Publisher
- Cham : Springer, 2018.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- SpringerBriefs in Speech TechnologySpringerBriefs in electrical and computer engineering. Speech technology.
- Added Author
- Ekpenyong, Moses Effiong, editor.
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 20-3104