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Yared musical notation is widely used in Ethiopian liturgical and non-liturgical songs since it was invented about 1500 years ago. This paper presents automatic synthesis of Yared hymn from the notations available in text form in different contexts where a specific note may produce the different utterance depending on the contexts. Concatenative approach with unit selection is used to synthesize the hymns. We also apply contextual pitch shifting and amplitude modification to remove discontinuities caused by concatenation. The system is evaluated using a test data collected from various hymn lyrics. We use Mean Opinion Score to evaluate the performance of the system for both naturalness and intelligibility, which is computed through an assessment made by domain experts. Experimental results are reported.
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Zemedu, G., Assabie, Y. (2014). Concatenative Hymn Synthesis from Yared Notations. In: Przepiórkowski, A., Ogrodniczuk, M. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. NLP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8686. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10888-9_40
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