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Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1996

RICHARD SPROAT
RICHARD SPROAT
Affiliation:
Language Modeling Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2d-451, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974–0636, USA. e-mail: rws@bell-labs.com
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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Natural Language Engineering , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 369 - 380
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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