Accent-Aware Text-to-Speech for Nigerian English: Building Inclusive Voice AI from Community-Curated Data

Christianah Titilope Oyewale, Benjamin Ogbonna

Published: 22 Sept 2025, Last Modified: 03 Jan 2026WiML @ NeurIPS 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: Nigerian English, Text-to-Speech, StyleTTS2, Accent-Aware TTS, Speech Synthesis, Whisper, Phoneme Embeddings, Diffusion Models, Inclusive AI
Submission Number: 296