A situational analysis of current speech-synthesis systems for child voices: A scoping review of qualitative and quantitative evidence

C Terblanche, M Harty, M Pascoe, BV Tucker - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Speech synthesis has customarily focused on adult speech, but with the
rapid development of speech-synthesis technology, it is now possible to create child voices …

HMM-based speech synthesis system incorporated with language identification for low-resourced languages

TJ Sefara, TB Mokgonyane… - … on Advances in Big …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems are of benefit towards learning new or foreign
languages. These systems are currently available for various major languages but not …

Do you like my voice? Stakeholder perspectives about the acceptability of synthetic child voices in three South African languages

CC Terblanche, M Pascoe… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Background There is a global need for synthetic speech development in multiple languages
and dialects, as many children who cannot communicate using their natural voice struggle to …