Text processing, including normalisation of Non-Standard Words.
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Total video to watch in this module: 27 minutes
What this part of the course will cover, and a first look at some of the different techniques available for synthesising speech.
The first task is to convert all of the text into words.
We need a general method for deciding whether a token needs normalising, or can be passed directly to the letter-to-sound module.