Browsing Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Speech synthesis"
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Generating fundamental frequency contours for speech synthesis in Yorùbá
(International Speech Communication Association ( ISCA ), 2013)We present methods for modelling and synthesising fundamental frequency (F0) contours suitable for application in text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis of Yorùbá (an African tone language). These methods are discussed and compared ... -
Predicting utterance pitch targets in Yoruba for tone realisation in speech synthesis
(Elsevier, 2014)Pitch is a fundamental acoustic feature of speech and as such needs to be determined during the process of speech synthesis. While a range of communicative functions are attributed to pitch variation in speech of all ... -
A target Approximation Intonation Model for Yorùbá TTS
(ISCA, 2014)A 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 ...