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A Review on Speech Synthesis an Artificial Voice Production

Smita S. Hande

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.