YembaTones: A syllable-tone annotated dataset for speech recognition and prosodic analysis of the Yemba language

YembaTones: An Annotated Dataset for Tonal and Syllabic Analysis of the Yemba Language

YembaTones is a meticulously annotated dataset that focuses on tonal and syllabic variations in the

Improving Prosodic Features Extraction for Tone Detection in Yemba Language

In tonal languages, tone is of vital importance in differentiating between lexical words an

Syllable-based prosodic analysis of Amharic read speech

Syllable-Based Speech Recognition for Amharic

Amharic is the Semitic language that has the second large number of speakers after Arabic (Hayward and Richard 1999). Its writing system is syllabic with Consonant-Vowel (CV) syllable structure. Amharic orthography has more or less a one to one correspondence with

Prosodic phonology in Bamana (Bambara): Syllable complexity, metrical structure, and tone

This dissertation characterizes three components of prosodic phonology, namely syllable structure, m

Unsupervised Speech Recognition at the Syllable Level

Training speech recognizers with unpaired speech and text -- known as unsupervised speech recognitio