Executive Summary

Loquendo firmly believes speech markets can greatly benefit from speech standards and is continually supporting their development and deployment. As an active member of the W3C Voice Browser group, Loquendo welcomes the Pronunciation Lexicon Specification 1.0 Candidate Recommendation, which has been an essential step in simplifying the use of speech technologies for both ASR and TTS. The presence of a standard format for pronunciation lexicons can promote the sharing of pronunciation resources and, more importantly, it completes the Speech Interface Framework.

Loquendo is very pleased to contribute by submitting a complete PLS 1.0 Implementation Report. Loquendo will continue to give its full and enthusiastic support to the work of the W3C Voice Browser and Multimodal Interaction Working Groups, as well as to the VoiceXML Forum, as part of its continuing commitment to, and active participation in, the evolution of this and other specifications.

Technical Details

Note that the Loquendo PLS processor is not documented as having a method of selecting pronunciations, so it always selects the first in document order, as specified in Section 4.9.2 of PLS 1.0 Candidate Recommendation.

Note that the Loquendo processor is not documented as having a method of selecting pronunciations for TTS, so it always selects the first in document order, as specified in Section 4.9.2 of PLS 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Note that the Loquendo processor is not documented as having a method of selecting pronunciations for TTS, so it always selects the first in document order, as specified in Section 4.9.2 of PLS 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Note that the Loquendo processor is not documented as having a method of selecting pronunciations for TTS, so it always selects the first in document order, as specified in Section 4.9.2 of PLS 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Note that the Loquendo processor is not documented as having a method of selecting pronunciations for TTS, so it always selects the first in document order, as specified in Section 4.9.2 of PLS 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Note that the Loquendo processor is not documented as having a method of selecting pronunciations for TTS, so it always selects the first in document order, as specified in Section 4.9.2 of PLS 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Note that the Loquendo processor is not documented as having a method of selecting pronunciations for TTS, so it always selects the first in document order, as specified in Section 4.9.2 of PLS 1.0 Candidate Recommendation.