PUMA publications for /user/droessler/sprachwissenschafthttps://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/user/droessler/sprachwissenschaftPUMA RSS feed for /user/droessler/sprachwissenschaft2024-03-29T01:53:01+01:00An African Solution for an African Problem: A step towards perfectionhttps://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/28af577082a29f9c6d57bcf0214fa6c72/droesslerdroessler2017-10-22T18:04:37+02:00sprachwissenschaft südafrika phonetik tswana sprache bantu <span data-person-type="author" class="authorEditorList "><span><span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"><a title="Mpho Raborife" itemprop="url" href="/person/1b896c7803bcecaf48cc528ae6b276895/author/0"><span itemprop="name">M. Raborife</span></a></span>, </span><span><span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"><a title="Sigrid Ewert" itemprop="url" href="/person/1b896c7803bcecaf48cc528ae6b276895/author/1"><span itemprop="name">S. Ewert</span></a></span>, </span> and <span><span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"><a title="Sabine Zerbian" itemprop="url" href="/person/1b896c7803bcecaf48cc528ae6b276895/author/2"><span itemprop="name">S. Zerbian</span></a></span></span>. </span><span class="additional-entrytype-information"><span itemtype="http://schema.org/Book" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="isPartOf"><em><span itemprop="name">Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa</span>, </em></span><em>Stellenbosch, </em>(<em><span>2010<meta content="2010" itemprop="datePublished"/></span></em>)</span>Sun Oct 22 18:04:37 CEST 2017StellenboschProceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South AfricaAn African Solution for an African Problem: A step towards perfection2010sprachwissenschaft südafrika phonetik tswana sprache bantu This article reports on a study that involves im-
proving a tone label prediction algorithm. Tone is an important
prosodic feature for Bantu languages since these languages use
it to distinguish meaning. Studies have shown that text-to-speech
systems need detailed prosodic models of a language in order
to sound natural to native speakers of the language. Thus, text-
to-speech systems developed for Bantu languages need to have
tone implemented in them. In order to implement tone, it is
necessary for a tone modeling algorithm to receive as input the
tone labels of the syllables of a word. This allows the algorithm
to predict the appropriate intonation of the word. Our study is
concerned with improving an algorithm that predicts tone marks
of the syllables of a word. This algorithm uses three Sesotho tonal
rules to predict the tone labels on the syllables of polysyllabic
verb stems. We improve the algorithm by implementing another
tonal rule and extending the application of the tonal rules to
other parts of speech.