3 papers
cs.SD2026
A Situational Speech Synthesizer for Yoruba: System Design, Phonological Rule Architecture, and Orthographic Extensions for Contour
Kola Tubosun, Adedayo Oluokun, Hafiz Adewuyi +1
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. T…
cs.CL2023
ÌròyìnSpeech: A multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus
Tolulope Ogunremi, Kola Tubosun, Anuoluwapo Aremu +2
We introduce ÌròyìnSpeech, a new corpus influenced by the desire to increase the amount of high quality, contemporary Yorùbá speech data, which can be used for both Text-to-Speech…
cs.CL2020
Improving Yorùbá Diacritic Restoration
Iroro Orife, David I. Adelani, Timi Fasubaa +4
Yorùbá is a widely spoken West African language with a writing system rich in orthographic and tonal diacritics. They provide morphological information, are crucial for lexical dis…