Text to speech

A synthetic voice announcing an arriving train in Sweden.

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Text to speech (TTS) is the use of software to create a sound output in the form of a spoken voice. The program that is used by programs to change text on the page to an audio output of the spoken voice is normally a text to speech engine. TTS engines are needed for an audio output of machine translation results thank you.

Other websites[change | change source]

Text to speech at the Open Directory Project
Physics-based voice synthesis, at University of Brasilia.

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