The Epos Speech System

Jirka Hanika geo@cuni.cz

1. Introduction

2. Rules

• 2.1 Text Structure Representation overview
• 2.2 Rule file syntax overview
• 2.3 Using comments and the @include directive
• 2.4 Variables (macros)
• 2.5 Dictionary-oriented rules
• 2.6 Contentual rules
• 2.7 Structural rules
• 2.8 Prosody modeling rules
• 2.9 Composite rules
• 2.10 Conditional rules
• 2.11 Special rules
• 2.12 The "except" (!) operator
• 2.13 Escaping special characters

3. Options

• 3.1 Option classes
• 3.2 Configuration files
• 3.3 Command line
• 3.4 Setting options in TTSCP
• 3.5 Semipermanent personal preferences
• 3.6 Soft options
• 3.7 Level of description dependent options
• 3.8 Selected individual options

4. Text-To-Speech Control Protocol (TTSCP) (version 0)

• 4.1 Session header keywords
• 4.2 Data formats
• 4.3 TTSCP Commands
• 4.4 TTSCP modules
• 4.5 Response codes

5. Logging

6. Security

• 6.1 TTSCP-related issues
• 6.2 Privileged executables
• 6.3 local_only option

7. Source Code Documentation

• 7.1 Design goals
• 7.2 Isolated classes
• 7.3 Class hierarchies
• 7.4 Testing
• 7.5 Portability
• 7.6 More information