Human Language Technologies for Under-Resourced African Languages Design, Challenges, and Prospects /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ekpenyong, Moses Effiong (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology, Studies in Speech Signal Processing, Natural Language Understanding, and Machine Learning,
• Subjects: Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Natural language processing (Computer science).; Computational linguistics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Natural Language Processing (NLP).; Computational Linguistics.

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 ca...