@inproceedings{1995-lewis, author={Eric Lewis and Mark Tatham}, title={High Specification Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Information Systems}, booktitle={Second Language Engineering Convention, London}, publisher={DTI}, pages={145--152}, month={October}, year={1995}, abstract={Information systems of the future will be designed to incorporate high-quality text-to-speech(TTS) systems. In this context high-quality refers to speech which is pleasant to listen to, sounds natural and is unambiguous. SPRUCE (SPeech Response for UnConstrained English) is a TTS system which has been designed to possess thses characteristics. Particular features of SPRUCE are its modularity, it use of a comprehensive dictionary and its separation of high- and low-level sub-systems.}, abstract-url={http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/pub_master.jsp?id=1000091}, keyword={}, pubtype={102} }