Scholarly accounts of infant cry began in earnest in the late 1960s. Subsequent studies have
focused on creating a typology of cries in order to correlate them with specific pediatric …

This paper proposes a novel Chinese speech cloning model named VStyclone, which
consists of three stages: multi-speaker training, target speaker encoding, and target speaker …

This paper examines the acoustic phonetic properties of the stop consonants [p, b, t, d, k, g,
k͡p, g͡b] in Anyi, an Akan language spoken in eastern Côte d'Ivoire and western Ghana …

It is estimated that 40% of world languages are endangered and that some will go extinct in
the near future. There is not enough funding nor interest to preserve all of them. In response …

The purpose of this paper is to address speech processing phase of the synthesizer to
produce artificial speech from the phonetic sequences generated at the linguistic processing …

The endangerment of minority languages has reached pandemic proportions. No country or
continent is spared. The editors of Ethnologue (2019: 14-15) report that 2,923 of the world's …

This paper is a discussion of how NLP can come alongside community efforts to aid in
revitalizing the Mvskoke language. Mvskoke is a language indigenous to the southeastern …

In this paper, we describe a method for extracting speech segment features from an audio
recording such that speech may be reconstructed while maintaining emphasis and stress …

This paper provides basic information on developing speech synthesis to help preserve and
revitalize critically endangered languages. It uses Betine,(ISO 639-3: eot), as a model. The …

A fala envolve um manuseamento muito delicado dos órgãos da fala, pelo que uma
perturbação provocada por um elemento externo leva a alterações na produção da fala. É …