LIP: Lightweight Intelligent Preprocessor for meaningful text-to-speech. (arXiv:2207.07118v1 [cs.CL])

Existing Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems need to read messages from the email
which may have Personal Identifiable Information (PII) to text messages that
can have a streak of emojis and punctuation. 92% of the world's online
population use emoji with more than 10 billion emojis sent everyday. Lack of
preprocessor leads to messages being read as-is including punctuation and
infographics like emoticons. This problem worsens if there is a continuous
sequence of punctuation/emojis that are quite common in real-world
communications like …

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