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Text-to-speech (TTS)

Text-to-speech synthesizes spoken audio from written text — the inverse of speech recognition — with modern neural voices approaching natural prosody.

Contemporary TTS learned expressiveness from data rather than hand-built rules, enabling audiobook narration, screen readers and voice agents. Quality is judged on naturalness and correct emphasis, not just intelligibility.

Related terms

Voice cloningVoice cloning creates a synthetic voice that imitates a specific real person, sometimes from minutes of refere… ProsodyProsody is the melody of speech — pitch movement, rhythm, stress and pauses — carrying meaning beyond the word… Automatic speech recognition (ASR)Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is the technology that converts spoken language in audio into machine-reada…

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What is Text-to-speech?

Text-to-speech synthesizes spoken audio from written text — the inverse of speech recognition — with modern neural voices approaching natural prosody.

Why does Text-to-speech matter?

Contemporary TTS learned expressiveness from data rather than hand-built rules, enabling audiobook narration, screen readers and voice agents. Quality is judged on naturalness and correct emphasis, not just intelligibility.

What terms are related to Text-to-speech?

Closely related concepts: Voice cloning, Prosody, Automatic speech recognition (ASR) — each has its own entry in this glossary.