A Review on Speech Synthesis an ArtificialVoice Production

[摘要] Speech is used to convey emotions, feelings and information. It has began from day one when human beings start to communicate. Speech synthesis, also called text-to-speech, is the generation of synthetic speech. An application or other process sends text to a speech synthesizer, which creates a spoken version that can be output through the audio hardware or saved to a file. This paper deals with some methods of speech synthesis. Speech synthesis has very wide range of applications, which are reviewed in later part of the paper.

[关键词] Speech synthesis;Articulatory synthesizer;Formant synthesizer;Concatenative synthesizer.