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Opeyemi Osakuade: To what extent do speech models capture the tones of tonal languages?
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Lanfrica Talks
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Season 1
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Episode 29
This podcast follows from the presentation at https://youtu.be/rV5bUikOe88. In this episode, we're joined by Opeyemi Osakuade, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, engaged in the study of speech models, with a particular focus on low-resourced languages. Opeyemi Lukman 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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