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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…
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…