The document discusses sentence-based sentiment analysis for expressive text-to-speech systems. It describes how sentiment analysis can identify the sentiment or emotion expressed in a text and help text-to-speech systems synthesize speech with appropriate emotional cues. The key steps in sentiment analysis involve preprocessing text, extracting features, classifying sentiment at the document, sentence or word level. Expressive text-to-speech systems aim to deliver expressive cues when synthesizing speech based on the analyzed sentiment. The document also outlines the components and process of a typical text-to-speech system.