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New speech synthesizer developed for Yoruba language

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Researchers have developed TTSYoruba, a rule-based speech synthesizer for the Yoruba language. This system utilizes a hand-crafted phonological rule system and a recorded inventory of diphone units to convert tone-marked Yoruba text into audio. The system addresses challenges such as nasal disambiguation and contour tone derivation, and integrates new orthographic conventions for tone marking. Its performance was evaluated through a listener study with 50 participants. AI

IMPACT This development contributes to low-resource language NLP and speech synthesis capabilities.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper detailing a system design for a speech synthesizer. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New speech synthesizer developed for Yoruba language

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Kola Tubosun, Adedayo Oluokun, Hafiz Adewuyi, Dadepo Aderemi ·

    A Situational Speech Synthesizer for Yoruba: System Design, Phonological Rule Architecture, and Orthographic Extensions for Contour

    arXiv:2607.18317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present TTSYoruba, a rule-based concatenative diphone speech synthesizer for Yoruba, deployed at online as part of the YorubaName.com open dictionary of Yoruba personal names. The system takes tone-marked Yoruba text as input a…

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