PPT Slide
In September 1997, three labs, Sun Microsystems, Bell Labs, and Edinburgh University 's Center for Speech Language Technology
forces to merge two proposed standards, namely STML, and Sun's Java Speech Markup Language, JSML. The consortium, called
SaBLE, aims to produce common standard for TTS markup within the next year or so. It must be system independent standard for
making up text for the purpose of synthesis.