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Building synthetic voices for under-resourced languages: a comparison between audiobook and studio data

Author: De Wet, Febe ; Dlamini, Nkosikhona ; Van der Walt, Willem J ; Govender, Avashna Date: Dec 2017 Creating synthetic voices that are both natural and intelligible is a daunting challenge for well-resourced languages. The challenge is much bigger for languages in which the speech and text resources required for voice development are not ... Read more
Part-of-speech tagging and chunking in text-to-speech synthesis for South African languages

Author: Schlunz, Georg I ; Dlamini, Nkosikhona ; Kruger, Rynhardt P Date: Sep 2016 Text-to-speech synthesis can be an empowering communication tool in the hands of the print-disabled or augmentative and alternative communication user. In an effort to improve the naturalness of synthesised speech – and thus enhance the ... Read more
Text normalisation in text-to-speech synthesis for South African languages: native number expansion

Author: Schlunz, Georg I ; Dlamini, Nkosikhona ; Tshoane, Alfred ; Ramunyisi, Ndivhuwo S Date: Nov 2017 Text normalisation in text-to-speech synthesis comprises the segmentation and classification of the incoming text and the subsequent expansion of non-standard words into their standard word, spoken forms. We present a rule-based implementation ... Read more

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