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

ABSTRACT: Prosody is a key area of linguistics that explores tonal and rhythmic variations in speech. In tonal languages such as Yemba, prosody plays a crucial role in distinguishing between words with different meanings or different grammatical forms. However, despite the large number of native speakers of this language in Cameroon, there are few resources for the speech recognition and synthesis. In this article, we present YembaTones, a syllabic and tonal annotated dataset, created from a dictionary we designed of 344 Yemba/French words coming from the most common phrases of the language, grouped according to their spellings that only differ by the tone. The dataset was originally designed for training and evaluating tone detection models for tonal and low resource languages. The recordings of th

SUBMITTER: Kenfack Jeuguim MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751836 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature