Morpho-VITS: Variational Inference with Morphological Modeling for End-to-End Speech Synthesis of a Tonal Bantu Language

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arXiv:2609.24310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-speech models for Bantu tonal languages are challenged by a tonal system that is rooted in both the lexis (i.e., the inventory of words, stems, and affixes) and the grammar (i.e., morpho-syntax). To complicate matters, the standard writing systems of these languages often omit tone markings and syllable duration information, which must be disambiguated by the reader based on context. Motivated by linguistic descriptions of Bantu language