Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
<|reference_start|>Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis: 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.<|reference_end|>
@article{sproat1996multilingual,
    title={Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis},
    author={Richard Sproat},
    journal={ECAI Workshop on Extended Finite-State Models of Language},
    year={1996},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9608012},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}