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Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

cmp-lg 2008-02-03 v1 Computation and Language
Authors: Richard Sproat
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Abstract

We present a model of text analysis for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis based on (weighted) finite-state transducers, which serves as the text-analysis module of the multilingual Bell Labs TTS system. The transducers are constructed using a lexical toolkit that allows declarative descriptions of lexicons, morphological rules, numeral-expansion rules, and phonological rules, inter alia. To date, the model has been applied to eight languages: Spanish, Italian, Romanian, French, German, Russian, Mandarin and Japanese.

Keywords

text-to-speech speech translation machine translation

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@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9608012,
  title  = {Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis},
  author = {Richard Sproat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9608012},
  year   = {2008}
}

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