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Design of a Yoruba Language Speech Corpus for the Purposes of Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis

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This paper deals with the design of a speech corpus for a corpus-based Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis approach. The purposes are first to provide enough speech to develop Yoruba corpus-based TTS system and second, to provide a simple methodology for other languages corpus design. The paper focuses on text analysis, selection of the reliable sentences, selection of the reader, and sentences recording. The analysis is performed to ensure a good balance of the corpus. Then, 2,415 sentences are gathered (essentially affirmative sentences). Those sentences have been read by a Yoruba language journalist who is a native speaker of the language. There is one speaker for the whole corpus.

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Notes

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    http://www.africa.uga.edu/Yoruba/phonology.html.

  2. 2.

    http://espeak.sourceforge.net.

  3. 3.

    http://www.jw.org/yo.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/johnaoga/marytts.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the contribution of Vincent AWE, radio journalist of Yoruba language at the Office of Radio and Television of Benin (ORTB), for the recording of the corpus.

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  1. School of Applied Economics and Management, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

    Théophile K. Dagba

  2. Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

    John O. R. Aoga

  3. School of Administration, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

    Codjo C. Fanou

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  1. Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Bogdan Trawiński

  3. Iwate Prefectural University, Takizawa, Japan

    Hamido Fujita

  4. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Tzung-Pei Hong

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Dagba, T.K., Aoga, J.O.R., Fanou, C.C. (2016). Design of a Yoruba Language Speech Corpus for the Purposes of Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis. In: Nguyen, N.T., Trawiński, B., Fujita, H., Hong, TP. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49381-6_16

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