Year: 1997
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Text-to-speech synthesizers must process text, and therefore require some knowledge of text structure. While many TTS systems allow for user control by means of ad hoc `escape sequences', there remains to date no adequate and generally agreed upon system-independent standard for marking up text for the purposes of synthesis. The present paper is a collaborative effort between two speech groups aimed at producing such a standard, in the form of an SGML-based markup language that we call STML --- Spoken Text Markup Language. The primary purpose of this paper is not to present STML as a fait accompli, but rather to interest other TTS research groups to collaborate and contribute to the development of this standard. 1. INTRODUCTION In order to be able to make most efficient use of computers in the processing of online text, it is necessary to have mechanisms for marking those features of the text that are deemed to be salient, but which might be difficult or impossible to automatically de...
Source: ERA
Authors: Richard Sproat, Paul Taylor, Michael Tanenblatt, Amy Isard
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1835309644