Author:Marais, Laurette; Wilken, IlanaDate:Nov 2021Research attempting to describe and quantify the differences between spoken and written language has been done for languages such as English, but not for isiZulu. In this paper, we present a quantitative investigation into such differences ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes ADate:Dec 2020Sequence-to-sequence end-to-end models for text-to-speech have shown significant gains in naturalness of the produced synthetic speech. These models have an encoder-decoder architecture, without an explicit duration model, but rather a learned ...Read more