| text-to-speech synthesizer [¦tekst tǝ ¦spēch `sin·thǝ´sīz·ǝr] ENGINEERING ACOUSTICS A voice response system that provides an automatic means to take a specification of any English text at the input and generate a natural and intelligible acoustic speech signal at the output by using complex sets of rules for predicting the needed phonemic states directly from the input message and dictionary pronunciations. |