SABLE: A STANDARD FOR TTS MARKUP

R. Sproat, A. Hunt, M. Ostendorf, P. Taylor, A. Black, K. Lenzo, M. Edgington Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Boston University,
CSTR - University of Edingburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University, BT Labs

Abstract:

Currently, speech synthesizers are controlled by a multitude of proprietary tag sets. These tag sets vary substantially across synthesizers and are an inhibitor to the adoption of speech synthesis technology by developers. SABLE is an XML/SGML-based markup scheme for text-to-speech synthesis, developed to address the need for a common TTS control paradigm. This paper presents an overview of the SABLE v0.2 specification, and provides links to websites with further information on SABLE.