Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech synthesis
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چکیده
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.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Natural Language Engineering
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996