Learn the bound pronouns of Cherokee.
This is a custom flashcard program to help with learning the bound pronouns of the Cherokee Language.
Includes neural network TTS speech generated by IMS-Toucan and Amazon for each of the conjugated challenges to help with learning pitch and cadence.
Headphones are strongly recommended.
Enough progress has been made on the Cherokee IMS-Toucan TTS project to start providing full sets of audio lesson material.
This audio is 100% computer generated audio. No humans were used in the making of these audio files.
I've continued working with using the IMS-Toucan to create a TTS for Cherokee. Much progress has been made and the system appears usable enough to go ahead and switch over to creating lesson audio. For those interested, I maintain a fork of the repo at Cherokee Language IMS-Toucan.
I've attached readings of The Wolf and the Crawdad, The Search Party, and The Turtle and the Rabbit from the book Cherokee Reference Grammar - Brad Montgomery-Anderson (2015) as well as readings of the Two Hunters story from the Cherokee English Dictionary.
I've been working with using the IMS-Toucan to create a TTS for Cherokee. My previous attempts with the Tacotron model kept resulting in problematic models that had a tendency to "ramble" on with "mumblings" in a not entirely predictable fashion. I maintain a fork of the repo at Cherokee Language IMS-Toucan.
The results I've obtained from the IMS-Toucan FastSpeech2 model are much more reliable.
I've attached a copy of three different TTS voices reading the Two Hunters story from the C.E.D., pp354-355. Cherokee Dictionary
Enough progress has been made on the Cherokee TTS project to provide a full set of audio only exercises.
This audio is 100% computer generated audio. No humans were used in the making of these audio files.