Text to speech synthesis for Ghanaian local languages (Twi)
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2016-04
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Businesses in Ghana do communicate with each other through letters, telephones, fax,
and emails. Due to the growth of technology, most of these businesses are providing their
services online to make it convenient for customers. However, these mediums of
communication have some limitations when it comes to language. In the instance where the
parties involved in the communication speak and understand different languages, it becomes
difficult to understand. Businesses would like to reach out to these people in a language they
can understand. Statistics have shown that almost half of the Ghanaian Adult (15 and above)
population are illiterates however they also need to do business as well to take care of their
family. The challenge is that due to their inability to understand the message, either in text or
audio, they tend to be left out in this age of technology growth. As a solution, this paper
intends to develop a text-to-speech application system in Twi which can be used to develop
prompts for Interactive Voice Response.
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Thesis submitted to the Department of Computer Science, Ashesi University College, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, April 2016
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Ghana, Twi, text-to-speech, Interactive Voice Response