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API Markup Language Specification

API Markup Language Specification

 
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. has worked in partnership with leading speech technology companies to define the specification of the Java Speech API. These companies brought decades of research on speech technology to the project as well as experience in the development and use of speech applications. Sun is grateful for the contributions of:

Acknowledgments

JSML has benefited from previous initiatives to mark-up speech output, in particular those that use an SGML or XML syntax:

  • At Edinburgh University: Taylor, P. A. and Isard, A., SSML: A speech synthesis markup language, Speech Communication 21 (1997) p. 123-133.
  • At Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Slott, J, A General Platform and Markup Language for Text to Speech Synthesis, MIT Masters Thesis, 1996.
  • SABLE Online Community: Sproat, R. et. al., SABLE: A Standard for TTS Markup, 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, November, 1998.

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