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The ÌròyìnSpeech Text Corpus: 24,905 Curated Yorùbá Sentences for Speech and Language Technology
Kola Tubosun, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Aanuoluwapo Aremu +3
ÌròyìnSpeech is a 42-hour, 80-speaker Yorùbá read-speech corpus whose audio has been distributed by ELRA since 2024. This paper describes the release of its text component: 24,905…
Marking Contour Tones in Yorùbá: A Typographic and Computational Proposal
Kólá Túbòsún
Yorùbá is a tonal language in which contour tones pose persistent orthographic challenges. These are especially notable for personal names and lexical items whose conventional spel…
Yorùbá in Unicode: An Overview of a Problem
Kólá Túbòsún
There is a recurrent problem in the writing of Yorùbá on the internet and on the computer that has proven intractable over the years. The language, along with other African languag…
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…
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…