Author:Govender, Natasha; Barnard, E; Davel, MHDate:Jun 2007Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive standards for prosodic phenomena has meant that prosodic systems for most of the languages of the world have, at best, been described in ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, EDate:2013Pitch is a fundamental acoustic feature of speech and as such needs to be determined during the process of speech synthesis. While a range of communicative functions are attributed to pitch variation in speech of all languages, it plays a ...Read more
Author:Van Niekerk, D; Barnard, EDate:May 2012The authors investigate the acoustic realisation of tone in short continuous utterances in Yoruba. Fundamental frequency contours are extracted for automatically aligned syllables from a speech corpus of 33 speakers collected for speech ...Read more