Text to Speech (TTS), or speech synthesis technology,
is an advanced hi-tech technology in the information processing
field. Its main task is to convert text into intelligible
voices, in other words, let machines talk like human beings.
Speech synthesis is the key technology in realizing human-machine
speech communication, and establishing automatic dialogue
systems. It's a particularly interdisciplinary field,
involving acoustics, linguistics, computer science and
signal processing.The following figure illustrates a typical
flow of Text-to-Speech progress:
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