SABLE

SABLE is an XML markup language used to annotate texts for speech synthesis. It defines tags that control how written words, numbers, and sentences are audibly reproduced by a computer. SABLE was developed as an informal joint project between Sun Microsystems, AT&T, Bell Labs, and Edinburgh University (the initial letters of each make the word "SABLE") as an initiative to combine three previous speech synthesis markup languages SSML, STML, and JSML.

External links

http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/sable.html

Speech synthesis

Proprietary software	BrowseAloud CereProc DECtalk IVONA Microsoft Agent Microsoft Speech API Microsoft text-to-speech voices Readspeaker Talk It! Voice browser Vocaloid Cantor Voiceroid CeVIO Creative Studio Vocalina NIAONiao Virtual Singer Utau

Free software	eSpeak Gnopernicus Gnuspeech Orca Festival Speech Synthesis System FreeTTS Sinsy

Machine	Echo 2 Pattern playback Phasor RIAS Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips TuVox

Applications	AOLbyPhone DialogOS Dr. Sbaitso MBROLA Microsoft Narrator Microsoft Speech Server PlainTalk Voice font

Protocols	Speech Synthesis Markup Language

Developers/ Researchers	Catherine Browman Franklin Seaney Cooper Gunnar Fant Haskins Laboratories Wolfgang von Kempelen Ignatius Mattingly Philip Rubin VoiceWeb VoiceXML Yamaha

Process	Articulatory synthesis Concatenative synthesis Currah Inverse filter PSOLA Phase vocoder SABLE Self-voicing