  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.
