TTS
Automated reading aloud
TTS stands for text-to-speech, the technology that converts written text into spoken audio.
Software reads aloud what appears on screen: The TTS voice pronounced her name wrong.
TTS powers virtual assistants, accessibility features for the visually impaired, and AI-generated voiceovers.
Quality ranges from robotic to nearly human-sounding.
audiobooks
Verbal account delivery
- narratorOne who tells events
- listeningAttending to sound
- chaptersMain divisions of text
- KindleElectronic reading tablet
MP3 · streaming · dramatization · unabridged · abridged
accessibility
Providing help or aid
- voiceoverOff-screen recorded speech
- JAWSText-to-voice accessibility software
- blindLacking the sense of sight
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
synthesis
Speech analysis synthesizer
- waveformGraphed oscillation pattern
- prosodyStudy of verse rhythm
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
- parametricGoverned by set variables
narration
Verbal account delivery
Kindle · MP3 · streaming · dramatization · unabridged · abridged
assistive
Providing help or aid
vocoder
Speech analysis synthesizer
- AudiA1, A3, A4, A5, Q2
- NLPtokenization, natural language processing, NLP, parsing, stemming
- voice synthesistext-to-speech, speech synthesis, voice synthesis, synthetic voice, speech synthesizer
- streamingNetflix, Hulu, streaming, stream, YouTube
conversion direction
TTSSTT
Airport code, Saint Thomas
speech-to-text · voice recognition · speech recognition · dictation · voice typing