Improving a tone labeling algorithm for Sesotho.

We report on a study that aimed to improve an existing tone label prediction algorithm for Sesotho, an official language of South Africa. Tone is an important prosodic feature of Sesotho, since speakers use tone to distinguish meaning. In order to implement tone in a Text-to-Speech system for Sesoth...

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Published in:	Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 19 - 51
Main Authors:	Raborife, Mpho, Ewert, Sigrid, Zerbian, Sabine
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Mar2015
Subjects:	Sotho language Linguistics Speech processing systems Orthography & spelling Computer science South Africa
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