Title :
Emu: an e-mail preprocessor for text-to-speech
Author :
Sproat, R. ; Hu, J. ; Chen, H.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
E-mail reading is one of the most important commercial applications of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). Yet e-mail is one of the most difficult types of text to deal with, since it is both highly structured -frequently containing elements such as tables, signatures, “artwork” and quotations from previous messages; and at the same time often lacks any reliable unambiguous indicators for such structure. This paper describes Emu, an e-mail mark-up and rendering program that preprocesses e-mail for TTS. We discuss algorithms for detecting regions of interest in the input text; for “normalizing” the input; and for actually rendering the input through the Bell Labs TTS system
Keywords :
electronic mail; speech synthesis; Bell Labs TTS system; Emu; algorithms; artwork; audio rendering; commercial applications; e-mail mark-up program; e-mail preprocessor; e-mail reading; e-mail rendering program; input normalizing; input text; quotations; regions of interest detection; signatures; tables; text-to-speech synthesis; Algorithm design and analysis; Control systems; Electronic mail; Graphics; Page description languages; Particle separators; Performance analysis; Phase detection; Speech processing; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Signal Processing, 1998 IEEE Second Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Redondo Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4919-9
DOI :
10.1109/MMSP.1998.738941
