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text-to-speech synthesizer

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text-to-speech synthesizer [¦tekst tə ¦spēch ′sin·thə‚sīz·ər]
(engineering acoustics)
A voice response system that provides an automatic means to take a specification of any English text at the input and generate a natural and intelligible acoustic speech signal at the output by using complex sets of rules for predicting the needed phonemic states directly from the input message and dictionary pronunciations.


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In these experimental sessions a synthetic voice, instead of a natural voice, was used because text-to-speech synthesizers have become essential tools for the accessibility of modern human-machine interaction applications for people who are visually impaired and thus the experiments originated from real operational conditions.
The existing Estonian text-to-speech synthesizer, for example, uses the MBROLA synthesis engine worked out at Mons University, Belgium (Dutoit 1997:276).
As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
 
 
 
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