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Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Konkani

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Edna Vaz Fernandes,

Ramdas Karmali,

Jyoti D. PawarAuthors Info & Claims

Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Volume 21, Issue 5

Article No.: 88, Pages 1 - 13

https://doi.org/10.1145/3474358

Published: 29 April 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Konkani is an under-resourced language mainly spoken on the west coast of India. Although linguistic analyses of vowel sounds in various dialects of Konkani have been done in the past, more accurate analysis of Konkani vowels, especially an acoustic-phonetic analysis, was never carried out. In this article, we present a detailed analysis of nine Konkani vowels, namely /i/, /e/, /ε/, /u/, /o/, /ɔ/, /a/, /ə/, and /ɨ̞/. The dataset used for the analysis was created from audio recordings of 28 native speakers of Goan Konkani. Based on the experimental results, we propose a vowel chart for Konkani. We also observed a partial loss of Konkani vowel /ɨ̞/ in the regular speech of native speakers. This change is also evident in the substitution analysis of vowel phonemes that was carried out by us as a part of this study.

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Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Konkani
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
      1. Phonology / morphology
      2. Speech recognition

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ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing Volume 21, Issue 5

September 2022

486 pages

ISSN:2375-4699

EISSN:2375-4702

DOI:10.1145/3533669

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Published: 29 April 2022

Online AM: 03 February 2022

Accepted: 01 December 2021

Revised: 01 July 2021

Received: 01 September 2020

Published in TALLIP Volume 21, Issue 5

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Lyu SQi HMin YMa Q(2024)Acoustic Analysis of Long and Short Vowels of Eastern Yugur Language for Low Resource Speech Synthesis2024 International Conference on Language Technology and Digital Humanities (LTDH)10.1109/LTDH64262.2024.00012(13-18)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/LTDH64262.2024.00012

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