Speech synthesis involves artificially generating human speech and using it for communicative purposes. Speech synthesis enables human-machine communication. Technically speaking, speech synthesis involves the conversion and output of encoded data in the form of speech, whereby speech synthesis systems store and phonetically classify corresponding words or word fragments. Two methods are used in speech synthesis: the use of previously recorded natural speech in the form of phonemes, words, and sentence fragments, and the generation of synthetic speech from data and text, whereby the first method can be used with a limited vocabulary, while synthetic generation works with an unlimited vocabulary. Such speech synthesis systems are used in computer-telephony integration (CTI), screen readers, text-to-speech, …
Text-to-Speech
