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text-to-speech

text-to-speech noun: the conversion of language text into speech using voice synthesis.

Noun

text-to-speech (uncountable)

  1. The conversion of language text into speech using voice synthesis.
    • To demonstrate the common-form model, let us now sketch how a text-to-speech system actually works. The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.2009, Paul Taylor, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41
    Synonyms:
    TTS

Synonyms of text-to-speech

Questions about text-to-speech

What does text-to-speech mean?
Text-to-speech means the conversion of language text into speech using voice synthesis.
What part of speech is text-to-speech?
Text-to-speech is a noun.

Words near text-to-speech in the dictionary

  1. text-book
  2. text-books
  3. text-critical
  4. text-editor
  5. text-editors
  6. text-to-speech
  7. text-type
  8. text-types
  9. texta
  10. textable
  11. textaholic

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