Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Appen provides pronunciation lexicons for text-to-speech applications, and undertakes tuning of the exceptions dictionaries for live TTS applications. This is especially relevant where people and place names are involved. Appen has extensive experience in names pronunciation and extensive holdings of names. Aligned grammatical and prosodic mark up of speech can be performed which delivers appropriate information for generation of natural sounding speech. Appen can also provide evaluation reports on TTS systems in speech applications to help developers optimise performance and adapt products to user behaviour.