Title :
Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Speech Synthesis Res., AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
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 :
finite state machines; linguistics; natural language interfaces; speech synthesis; Bell Labs TTS system; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Mandarin; Romanian; Russian; Spanish; declarative descriptions; lexical toolkit; lexicons; morphological rules; multilingual text analysis; numeral expansion rules; phonological rules; text-to-speech synthesis; weighted finite state transducers; Natural languages; Speech synthesis; Text analysis; Transducers;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607867
