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The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) is a W3C Specification, which is designed to enable interoperable specification of pronunciation information for both speech recognition and speech synthesis engines within voice browsing applications. The language is intended to be easy to use by developers while supporting the accurate specification of pronunciation information for international use.

The language allows one or more pronunciations for a word or phrase to be specified using a standard pronunciation alphabet or if necessary using vendor specific alphabets. Pronunciations are grouped together into a PLS document which may be referenced from other markup languages, such as the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification SRGS and the Speech Synthesis Markup Language SSML.

Usage

Here is an example PLS document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lexicon version="1.0" 
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon 
      http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/pls.xsd"
    alphabet="ipa" xml:lang="en-US">
  <lexeme>
    <grapheme>judgment</grapheme>
    <grapheme>judgement</grapheme>
    <phoneme>ˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt</phoneme>
  </lexeme>
  <lexeme>
    <grapheme>fiancé</grapheme>
    <grapheme>fiance</grapheme>
    <phoneme>fiˈɒns.eɪ</phoneme>
    <phoneme>ˌfiː.ɑːnˈseɪ</phoneme>
  </lexeme>
</lexicon>

which could be used to improve TTS as shown in the following SSML 1.0 document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<speak version="1.0" 
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis
      http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/synthesis.xsd"
    xml:lang="en-US">
  <lexicon uri="http://www.example.com/lexicon_defined_above.xml"/>
  <p> In the judgement of my fiancé, Las Vegas is the best place for a honeymoon.
      I replied that I preferred Venice and didn't think the Venetian casino was an
      acceptable compromise.<\p>
</speak>

but also to improve ASR in the following SRGS 1.0 grammar:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<grammar version="1.0"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/grammar 
      http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/grammar.xsd"
    xml:lang="en-US" root="movies" mode="voice">
  <lexicon uri="http://www.example.com/lexicon_defined_above.xml"/>
  <rule id="movies" scope="public">
    <one-of>
            <item>Terminator 2: Judgment Day</item> 
            <item>My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance</item> 
            <item>Pluto's Judgement Day</item>
    </one-of> 
  </rule>
</grammar>

Common Use Cases

Multiple pronunciations for the same orthography

For ASR systems it is common to rely on multiple pronunciations of the same word or phrase in order to cope with variations of pronunciation within a language. In the Pronunciation Lexicon language, multiple pronunciations are represented by more than one <phoneme> (or <alias>) element within the same <lexeme> element.

In the following example the word "Newton" has two possible pronunciations.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lexicon version="1.0" 
     xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon 
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/pls.xsd"
     alphabet="ipa" xml:lang="en-GB">
  <lexeme>
    <grapheme>Newton</grapheme>
    <phoneme>ˈnjuːtən</phoneme>
    <phoneme>ˈnuːtən</phoneme>
  </lexeme>
</lexicon>

References

PLS Specification (W3C Working Draft)

External links

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 For [[ASR]] systems it is common to rely on multiple pronunciations of the same word or phrase in order to cope with variations of pronunciation within a language. In the [[Pronunciation Lexicon Specification|Pronunciation Lexicon]] language, multiple pronunciations are represented by more than one &lt;phoneme> (or &lt;alias>) element within the same &lt;lexeme> element.
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    </lexeme>
  </lexicon>
 ==References==