Text-to-Speech

Voice is how we naturally communicate and can often be more appropriate than SMS text, email, chat or other forms of written or visual communication.

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People talk to, and listen to, other people. It's how we naturally communicate with each other. With text-to-speech you can synthesise human speech and make interaction with an automated system more natural. Bringing more natural interactions to scalable and cost-effective automated systems delivers positive customer experiences and drives adoption.

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech computer or speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech.

Synthesized speech can be created by concatenating pieces of recorded speech that are stored in a database. Systems differ in the size of the stored speech units; a system that stores phones or diphones provides the largest output range, but may lack clarity. For specific usage domains, the storage of entire words or sentences allows for high-quality output. Alternatively, a synthesizer can incorporate a model of the vocal tract and other human voice characteristics to create a completely "synthetic" voice output.

Text-to-Speech (TTS) refers to the ability of computers to read text aloud. A TTS Engine converts written text to a phonemic representation, then converts the phonemic representation to waveforms that can be output as sound. TTS engines with different languages, dialects and specialized vocabularies are available through third-party publishers.

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Text-to-Speech Services



Text-to-Speech

Convert text to lifelike speech. Text-to-speech via web console, email, REST API or Zapier.

Speech-to-Text

Transcribe a speech file to text.

Voice Gateway

Voice conferencing, hosted PBX, text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT), numbering and voice SIP trunks.

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