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PLS

  • Pronunciation Lexicon Specification

    • W3C standard

    • Actual version - 1.0, October 2008

  • Developed for description of pronunciation of words, abbreviations, etc.

  • Used for:

    • Speech synthesis (SSML) - pronunciation of

      • foreign words

      • abbreviations

      • number values

      • ...

    • Speech recognition (SRGS) - PLS allows to describe different pronunciations of some words (needed to be correctly recognized).

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