Human language technologies for under-resourced African languages : design, challenges, and prospects / Moses Effiong Ekpenyong, editor.
2018
TK7895.S65
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Title
Human language technologies for under-resourced African languages : design, challenges, and prospects / Moses Effiong Ekpenyong, editor.
ISBN
9783319699608 (electronic book)
3319699601 (electronic book)
9783319699585
3319699601 (electronic book)
9783319699585
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-69960-8 doi
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TK7895.S65
Dewey Decimal Classification
006.4/54
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 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 that learns the model from the text itself, and uses the data-driven approach to input specification. Provides a practical approach to tonal language synthesis that will broaden innovations in communications engineering Discusses a solution for tonal language system model design problems that are unique to growing markets in developing nations Addresses a growing technological need of developing countries language preservation projects.
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Ekpenyong, Moses Effiong, editor.
Series
SpringerBriefs in electrical and computer engineering. Speech technology.
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