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A markup language for text-to-speech synthesis.

Sproat et al., 1997

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14316936095405783566
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Sproat R
Taylor P
Tanenblatt M
Isard A
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Text-to-speech synthesizers must process text, and therefore require some knowledge of text structure. While many TTS systems allow for user control by means of ad hoc 'escape sequences', there remains to date no adequate and generally agreed upon system …
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