Analysis of Manipuri Tones in ManiTo: A Tonal Contrast Database
Manipuri is a low-resource, tonal language spoken predominantly in Manipur, a northeastern state of India. It has two tones - level and falling tones. For an acceptable Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system, integration of tonal information from a robust Tone Recognition model is essential. Research work on ASR has been done on Asian, African and Indo-European tonal languages such as Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese but Manipuri is largely unexplored. This paper focuses on the fundamental analysis of the developed hand-crafted tonal contrast dataset, ManiTo. It is observed that the height and slope of the pitch contour can be used to distinguish the two tones of the Manipuri language.
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