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Let's Fix Things: For over two decades I've been consulting in Communications Design: Everything from business strategy and processes, through to technology, interaction and customer experience. The thoughts here are my own, not necessarily that of my employer.

I have a penchant for spotting patterns and fixing broken user and customer experiences. Even my Bumblebee project hasn't escaped - I've been using Six Sigma techniques to study and predict their behaviour patterns. ☺

October 20, 2008

PLS - what is it, what “gap” does it fill?

October 20, 2008/ Nik Sargent

What PLS did is this:

First, it provided a single, standard XML-based language for describing pronunciations, both for speech recognizers and for speech synthesizers.
Second, it requires support for IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet. This Alphabet is a standard symbol set for representing pronunciations of all the languages of the world.

With PLS it is now possible to write one lexicon document that can be used by any speech recognizer and/or any speech synthesizer that supports it. One document for all of your pronunciations, independent of your voice technology vendor. [click heading for more]

Nik Sargent

Nik Sargent

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Nik Sargent

Nik Sargent