We present a model of text analysis for text-to-speech (TTS)
synthesis based on (weighted)
finite state transducers, which serves as the text analysis module of
the multilingual Bell Labs
TTS system. The transducers are constructed using a lexical toolkit that
allows declarative
descriptions of lexicons, morphological rules, numeral-expansion rules,
and phonological rules,
inter alia. To date, the model has been applied to eight languages:
Spanish, Italian, Romanian,
French, German, Russian, Mandarin and Japanese.