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Hitting the right tone [talking drums, Nigeria]

author(s) Adégbölá, Túndé
from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
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  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
citation

Adégbölá, Túndé, 'Hitting the right tone [talking drums, Nigeria]', ICT Update, vol. 40, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, 2007

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Abstract

The traditional Yoruba talking drums' of Nigeria provided inspiration for a unique approach to speech recognition technology. The technique could be applied to other African languages and used in literacy programmes

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