Text-to-Speech Converter Reference Manual Table of Contents
About This Manual
Organization
Related Documents
Developer Support
1 Introduction
1.1 About the NaturalText Text-to-Speech Converter
1.2 Getting Started With The TTSC
1.2.1 Text Character Processing Switches
1.2.2 Speech Attributes
1.2.3 Phoneme Input
2 Input Format
2.1 Introduction
2.2 ASCII Character Set
2.3 Control and Data Characters
2.3.1 Control Characters
2.3.2 Data Characters
2.3.3 Text Characters
2.3.4 Phoneme Characters
2.3.5 Buffered and Immediate Characters
2.4 Word Separators
2.5 One-Letter Words
2.6 Formatting Text Strings
2.6.1 Example 1
2.6.2 Example 2
3 Text Character Processing
3.2 Introduction
3.3 Lowercase Alphabetic Text Characters
3.4 Upper Case Alphabetic Text Characters
3.5 Emphatic And Deemphasis Stress Characters
3.6 Acronyms
3.7 Abbreviations
3.7.1 Days
3.7.2 Months
3.7.3 Names and Addresses
3.7.4 Thoroughfares
3.7.5 Titles
3.7.6 Weights and Measures
3.7.7 Miscellaneous
3.7.8 Abbreviations at End of a Sentence
3.7.9 Word Abbreviations
3.8 Special Abbreviations
3.8.1 Doctor and Drive
3.8.2 Street and Saint
3.8.3 Fort and Foot
3.9 Words Without Vowels
3.10 Numbers
3.10.1 Numbers without Commas
3.10.2 Large Numbers
3.10.3 Numbers with Inconsistent Commas
3.10.4 Numbers with Decimal Points
3.10.5 Numbers with Ordinalizers
3.11 Time Of Day
3.12 Monetary Amounts
3.13 Separators
3.14 Apostrophe Character
3.15 Sentence Terminators
3.16 Sentence Internal Punctuation
3.17 Colon Character
3.18 Hyphen Character
3.19 Miscellaneous Punctuation Characters
3.20 Unreadable Input
4 Changing Text Character Processing Switches
4.1 Switch Summary
4.2 On/Off Switches
4.2.1 Switch On
4.2.2 Switch Off
4.2.3 Alphabetic Pronunciation (Switch 1)
4.2.4 Punctuation Pronunciation (Switch 2)
4.2.5 Digit Pronunciation (Switch 3)
4.2.6 Space Pronunciation
(Switch 4)
4.2.7 Minus Sign Pronunciation
(Switch 5)
4.2.8 Full Number Pronunciation
(Switch 6)
4.2.9 Upper Case Acronym Pronunciation (Switch 7)
4.2.10 Abbreviation Pronunciation (Switch 8)
4.2.11 Allophonic Processing (Switch 9)
4.2.12 Error Character Generation (Switch 10)
4.2.13 Monotone Pitch (Switch 12)
4.2.14 Capital Pronunciation (Switch 13)
4.2.15 Fast Processing (Switch 14)
4.2.16 Carriage Return On Output Sequences(Switch 15)
4.3 Activate/Deactivate Switches
4.3.1 Switch On
4.3.2 Switch Off
4.3.3 High Frequency Energy Boost(Switch 1)
4.3.4 State Abbreviation And Zip Code Pronunciation (Switch 2)
4.3.5 Direction Abbreviation Pronunciation (Switch 3)
4.3.6 Automatic Ordinalization(Switch 4)
4.3.7 Very High Speech Rate (Switch 5)
5 Speech Modification
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Speech Attribute Selection
5.3 Attenuation Select
5.4 Baseline Pitch Select
5.5 Emphatic Stress Character
5.6 Deemphasis Stress Character
5.7 Fast Scan
5.8 Prosody Select
5.9 Speech Rate Select
5.10 Indexed Speaking Rate Select
5.11 Voice Select
5.12 High Frequency Energy Boost Select
5.13 Input Select
6 Phoneme Character Processing
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Internal Segmental Phonemes
6.2.1 Override Format 1:
6.2.2 Override Format 2:
6.3 Phoneme Alphabet
6.4 Internal Non-Segmental Phonemes
6.4.1 Description:
6.4.2 Primary Stress
6.4.3 Secondary Stress — 2
6.4.4 Emphatic Stress — "
6.4.5 Content Word Boundary — &
6.4.6 Function Word Boundary — %
6.4.7 Period — .
6.4.8 Question Mark — ?
6.4.9 Comma — ,
6.4.10 End Of Phrase — )
6.4.11 End Of Clause — ]
6.4.12 Silence — <Sp>
6.5 Internal Phoneme Translation Tables
6.5.1 Using Phoneme Translation Tables
Appendix A: Using Segmental Phonemes
Introduction
Vowels
Vowel-Plus-R Allophones
Consonants
Consonant Allophones
Miscellaneous
Pronunciation Errors
References
Appendix B: TruVoice Phonetic Alphabets
Sorted By Internal Phoneme
Appendix C: Converting Spanish Text
Introduction
Alphabetic Text Characters
Lower Case Alphabetic Text Characters
Upper Case Alphabetic characters
Tilde Character
Apostrophe Character
Grave Accent Character
Word Separators
One Letter Words
Acronyms
Abbreviations
Abbreviations and the Ends of Sentences
Abbreviations Following Numbers
Abbreviations Following Millions
Special Abbreviations and Acronyms
Words without Vowels
Cardinal Numbers
Large Numbers without Commas
Large Numbers with Commas
Decimal Numbers
Numbers With Ordinalizers
Numbers Followed by Abbreviations for Quantities
Time of Day
Dates
Dollar Amounts
Garbage Input
Terminal Punctuation
Sentence Internal Punctuation
Hyphen Characters
Miscellaneous Punctuation Characters
Phoneme Character Processing
General
Segmental Input
Vowels and Diphthongs
Liquids and Trills
Nasals
Fricatives
Stops
Affricates
Miscellaneous
Non-Segmental Phonemes
Stress
Word Boundary
Period
Question Mark
Comma
Silence
Index
