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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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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.

Subject

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

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology

SpringerBriefs in electrical and computer engineering. Speech technology.

Added Author

Ekpenyong, Moses Effiong, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 20-3104

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