A markup language for text-to-speech synthesis.
Date
1997Author
Sproat, Richard
Taylor, Paul
Tanenblatt, Michael
Isard, Amy
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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.