Working with several collaborators on Automatic Speech Recognition for low-resource tone languages.
Production of digital literature minimally requires (1) an orthography and (2) a text input mechanism. Many talk about orthography, but few talk about how minority-language users experience their orthographies during the typing process. With a …
This is a short non-exhaustive bibliography of instigations and their reports when looking at tone in whispered speech.
Proposal Digital language death is a real issue for many small and under-resourced languages. To use Kornai’s (2013) terms, the digital moribund state of languages is accelerated by the lack of intuitive and useful text input methods for many minority and under-resourced languages.
Is the IPA really a phonetic transcription system when it comes to tone? Or must it force a user to make a phonological evaluation?
When conducting fieldwork on tone languages, the linguist choosing to use the IPA to make phonetic transcriptions of tone is presented with a challenge: Current methods of tone transcription in the IPA require a degree of …