Human Language Technologies for Under-Resourced African Languages - Design, Challenges, and Prospects (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Moses Effiong Ekpenyong
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	134
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-69958-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Computational linguistics Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Natural language & machine translation Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Applied optics > General
LSN:	3-319-69958-X
Barcode:	9783319699585

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