1. A text processing system for processing multi-lingual text for a speech synthesizer, the text processing system comprising: a first language dependent module for performing at least one of text and prosody analysis on a portion of input text comprising a first language; a second language dependent module for performing at least one of text and prosody analysis on a second portion of input text comprising a second language; and a third module adapted to receive outputs from the first and second language dependent modules and perform prosodic and phonetic context abstraction over the outputs based on a multi-lingual text.