This paper presents a text-to-speech system based on statistical synthesis which, for the first time, allows generating speech in any of the four official languages of Spain as well as English. Using the AhoTTS system already developed for Spanish and Basque as a starting point, we have added support for Catalan, Galician and English using the code of available open-source modules. The resultin...

We introduce TweetMT, a parallel corpus of tweets in four language pairs that combine five languages (Spanish from/to Basque, Catalan, Galician and Portuguese), all of which have an official status in the Iberian Peninsula. The corpus has been created by combining automatic collection and crowdsourcing approaches, and it is publicly available. It is intended for the development and testing of m...

ISSN 1932-8540 © IEEE Abstract—Quality assurance is one of the most critical aspects of e-learning. This challenge is even more demanding when related to an initiative promoted by a public administration – the regional government of Galicia, Spain – targeted to continuing education in a rapidly evolving economical sector. Can we assess that our course portfolio matches the needs of our audience...

This paper describes the two systems submitted to the Albayzin 2010 Language Recognition Evaluation by I3A. This evaluation is similar to the one organized by NIST every 2 years, but the languages to be recognized are those spoken in the Iberian peninsula (Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese) plus English. Both submissions are a fusion of five phonotactic and three acoustic subsys...

In this contribution we propose a segmental duration model for the Galician language. We have focused our work on the study of allophonic durations in their syllabic environment. Firstly, a study of the speech rate over a recorded corpus led us to consider different behaviours in certain types of sentences. Secondly, the corpus was analyzed in order to determine the main factors affecting durat...

Since 2008, thousands of young Galician graduates have left their country looking for the job opportunities they cannot find at home, with UK (particularly London) as main destination. A noticeable feature this movement is increase women migrants, who sometimes occupied unskilled, low-paid jobs despite university qualifications. Starting in second decade 21st century, a corpus narrative texts w...

In the first decades of twentieth century, Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in Spanish press and subsequently compiled series volumes. La rana viajera [The Travelling Frog] (1920), however, gathers some pieces he wrote about Spain. This article examines Camba’s domestic w...

This article analyses Get Back (2016), a play written by Diego Ameixeiras and directed Jorge Coira. The text will be considered an example of early Brexit narrative, it serve to explore how the new Galician diaspora is represented through arts. Issues related migration, racism, precariousness bloom naturally from that gathers four migrants in London, together with British-born character, inside...