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T T S o r S p e e c h S y n t h e s i s   **What is it?** It is a an artificial production of human speech for people who are unable to communicate through talking. The device used to make this work is called a speech engine. It turns any text into speech directly. There is also acapela text to speech which is really interesting because of it's accurateness and naturalness. The speech engine makes text into a voice that sounds like a human speaking almost perfectly.


 * How it works-** to reproduce     <span style="color: rgb(27, 75, 32);">the natural sound of each language, a narrator records a series of texts, which are made up of every possible sound in the chosen language. Then they are in the database in which sections them off into syllables, words, phrases, and sentences. A grammatical and syntactical analysis tells the speech engine how to pronounce each word. The sound is produced by selecting the best sounding ones in the database.

<span style="color: rgb(13, 93, 9);"> <span style="color: rgb(13, 93, 9);"><span style="color: rgb(9, 74, 8);"><span style="color: rgb(14, 88, 18);"><span style="color: rgb(15, 75, 6);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(139, 15, 4);">**<span style="color: rgb(9, 73, 18);">Uses- **<span style="color: rgb(9, 73, 18);">     <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 100, 7);"><span style="color: rgb(15, 75, 6);"><span style="color: rgb(13, 93, 9);">people with visual impairments, dyslexia or illiteracy, voice solutions find that it makes it a lot easier. The user's voice replaces the keyboard, while speech engine replaces the screen with natur al sounding speech. Also used to make computer programs more accessible and can let the user be free from keyboard and screen dependency.

The cost varies between different customers

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 * Links that enable you to use TTS:**




 * Hardware:** Votrax, General Instruments, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Philips, National Semiconductor


 * Computers with Speech Synthesis:** Apple, Amiga OS, Microsoft Windows, Internet