NüshuVoice: Reviving the Voice of Endangered Nüshu with Pitch-Aware Text-to-Speech
Researchers have developed NüshuVoice, the first text-to-speech system designed to revive the endangered Nüshu language. This system addresses the challenge of extremely limited audio data by creating a new sentence-level dataset. It utilizes a pitch-aware VITS framework, Nüshu-PitchVITS, which incorporates Nüshu's five-level pitch notation to improve speech synthesis accuracy and intelligibility. AI
IMPACT Revives an endangered language through AI, potentially enabling new forms of cultural preservation and accessibility.