Year: 1998
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Currently, speech synthesizers are controlled by a multitude of proprietary tag sets. These tag sets vary substantially across synthesizers and are an inhibitor to the adoption of speech synthesis technology by developers. SABLE is an XML/SGML-based markup scheme for text-to-speech synthesis, developed to address the need for a common TTS control paradigm. This paper presents an overview of the SABLE specification, and provides links to sites where further information on SABLE can be accessed. 1. INTRODUCTION There is an ever increasing demand for speech synthesis (TTS) technology in various applications including e-mail reading, information access over the web, tutorial and language-teaching applications, and aids for the handicapped. Invariably, an application that was developed with a particular TTS system A cannot be ported, without a fair amount of additional work, to a new TTS system B, for the simple reason that the tag set used to control system A is completely different from...
Authors: Richard Sproat, Andrew Hunt, Mari Ostendorf, Paul Taylor, Alan W. Black, Kevin Lenzo, Mike Eddington
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1519732405