An electronic device that converts text characters into artificial speech. Speech synthesizers most frequently use pronunciation rules for translating text to speech. The quality of synthetic speech ranges from close to lifelike to robotic sounding speech found in lower end speech synthesizers.
a device that in some instances behaves just like a sample playback device, but its VALUE is that it can produce any word from a set of phonemes, and is not limited to 'pre-recorded' speech or other sounds
a speech engine that converts text to speech
A device that converts text characters into artificial speech using a standard pronunciation rule for speech.
A device used with computers and other technologies to produce speech.
An assistive device that produces spoken words, either by splicing together prerecorded words or by programming the computer to produce the sounds that make up spoken words.
Refers to a device that contains a stored set of the phonemes that can be used to make up all of the words in a language (e.g., English) and an appropriate software interface for telling the synthesizer what words or sequence of words to synthesize. Screen-reading software can be used in conjunction with a speech synthesizer to provide speech output for individuals with vision loss.
device with accompanying software used with a computer to ‘speak’ text by selecting elements from stored sounds or by breaking down the text into individual elements (phonemes) which are then produced in the correct sequence. See also augmentative and alternative communication, synthesized speech.
