Text-to-speech (TTS) technology transforms written words into audio files for output, with input from typing on a computer keyboard or reading from documents. Synthetically generated wave files, digitized and used for voice recordings. It could either be typed into or from documents.
TTS is a form of speech synthesis, converting written text to audible voice output, like spoken sentences. TTS can be used in many applications, including reading materials using a screen reader for people with visual impairment and reading disabilities and providing audible output for texts that are difficult to comprehend, for instance, foreign languages.
Technology has come a long way from the early 1950s when text-to-speech systems were invented. Today’s Text-to-speech (TTS) systems use complex algorithms to turn text into natural speaking; they consider contextual aspects as they read and different voices for characters or applications.
TTS systems could be in public information, educational materials, giving audible feedback to text input, or reading difficult passages. TTS can also make audio versions of digital books, voice virtual assistants, and other artificial intelligence products.
Text-to-speech offers audio-to-text for the visually impaired and people with reading disabilities, making reading texts much more effortless. TTS will also be helpful for some people who would rather hear their documents than read them or for those who want to access texts written in languages they have yet to improve at speaking.