Lanfrica Talks #29 | Unraveling Yorùbá's Tonal Tapestry by Opeyemi Osakuade
Channel: Lanfrica
Date: 2023-12-01

To what extent do speech models capture the tones of tonal languages? 

In this episode, we're joined by Opeyemi Osakuade who answers this question for us. She is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, engaged in the study of speech models, with a particular focus on low-resourced languages. Opeyemi discusses the challenges of applying advanced speech representation models, like HuBERT, to tonal languages, using Yorùbá as a case study. The episode explores the strengths and limitations of HuBERT in capturing the nuances of Yorùbá's tonal system. 

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