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Version 0.6 - October 12, 1999
The Java
Speech API Markup Language (JSML) is a text
format used by applications to annotate
text input to speech synthesizers. JSML
elements provide a speech synthesizer
with detailed information on how to speak
text and thus enable improvements in the
quality, naturalness and understandability
of synthesized speech output. JSML defines
elements that describe the structure of a
document, provide pronunciations of words
and phrases, indicate phrasing, emphasis,
pitch and speaking rate, and control other
important speech characteristics. JSML is
designed to be simple to learn and use,
to be portable across different synthesizers
and computing platforms, and to applicable to a wide range of languages.
Contents
Contributions
Notes to Reviewers
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1.
Introduction
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1.1
Goals for JSML
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1.2
Processing JSML Documents
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2.
JSML as an XML Document
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2.1
Well-Formed JSML Document
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2.2
XML Declaration
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2.3
XML Elements and Attributes
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2.4
XML Comments, Entities, CDATA
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2.5
HTML vs. XML: Syntax Differences
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3.
JSML Elements
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3.1
"jsml" Element: Document Root
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3.2
"div" Element: Text Structure
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3.3
"voice" Element: Speaking Voice
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3.4
"sayas" Element: Text Constructs
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3.5
"phoneme" Element: Pronunciation
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3.6
"emphasis" Element: Emphasizing Text
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3.7
"break" Element: Pauses and Other Boundaries
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3.8
"prosody" Element: Pitch, Volume and Rate
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3.9
"marker" Element: Notifications
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3.10
"engine" Element: Proprietary Controls
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A.
Java Speech API Markup Language DTD
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