text-to-speech synthesizer

text-to-speech synthesizer

[¦tekst tə ¦spēch ′sin·thə‚sīz·ər] (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.