Development of a G2P Conversion System for Yoruba TTS System.

      Аннотация: This work presents a system for generating the phonemic description of the sound corresponding to a piece of Yor?b? text. The study and analysis of the Yor?b? texts with focus on extracting the knowledge needed in developing a grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) system based on Yor?b? text was carried out. The results of the study have been presented and discussed with a view to provide a key to the most suitable Yor?b? transcription for texts. The result shows that the Yor?b? G2P system has a systematic concept underlying it and this concept can be specified, analysed and represented using computational tools. Also, the result of this study has general application in Yor?b? TTS from reading and listening to computerized books on ones' email. It also allows the visually impaired and those who cannot read Yoruba have access to Yor?b? electronic content such as the World Wide Web. Lastly, The software developed as part of this research can be an effective component in language study/ education and can as well be adapted to other tone languages.

Ключевые слова: Text-to-speech, tone languages, Grapheme-to-Phoneme, Standard Yor?b?