4.9.1. Changing the lead-in character 18 4.9.2. Double the lead-in character 18 5. T-T-S (tm) Text Normalizer Performance 19 5.1. Overview 19 5.2. Pronouncing Numbers 20 5.3. Pronouncing Letters and Words 22 5.4. Homographic Spellings 23 5.5. Interpreting Punctuation 23 6. T-T-S (tm) American English Phonemes 25 6.1. Boundaries and Silence 25 6.2. Precisely Specifying Stress and Pitch 25 6.3. Transcription Conventions 26 6.4. Symbols for Phonemic Transcription of Words 26 6.4.1. Consonant phonemes: 26 6.4.2. Vowel phonemes (as they are pronounced in stressed syllables): 27 Introduction Keynote GOLD synthesizers are available in four formats: In a type II PCMCIA computer card. (Voicecard Model) For IBM PC and compatible computers using the industry standard 8 bit bus, (PC model) For selected models of the Toshiba range of portable laptop and notebook style computers, using the internal modem connection, (SE model) As a stand alone synthesizer with a serial RS-232 connection to the host computer. (SA model) This document describes the Keynote GOLD speech synthesizer
4.9.1. Changing the lead-in character 18 4.9.2. Double the lead-in character 18 5. T-T-S (tm) Text Normalizer Performance 19 5.1. Overview 19 5.2. Pronouncing Numbers 20 5.3. Pronouncing Letters and Words 22 5.4. Homographic Spellings 23 5.5. Interpreting Punctuation 23 6. T-T-S (tm) American English Phonemes 25 6.1. Boundaries and Silence 25 6.2. Precisely Specifying Stress and Pitch 25 6.3. Transcription Conventions 26 6.4. Symbols for Phonemic Transcription of Words 26 6.4.1. Consonant phonemes: 26 6.4.2. Vowel phonemes (as they are pronounced in stressed syllables): 27 Introduction Keynote GOLD synthesizers are available in four formats: In a type II PCMCIA computer card. (Voicecard Model) For IBM PC and compatible computers using the industry standard 8 bit bus, (PC model) For selected models of the Toshiba range of portable laptop and notebook style computers, using the internal modem connection, (SE model) As a stand alone synthesizer with a serial RS-232 connection to the host computer. (SA model) This document describes the Keynote GOLD speech synthesizer