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Created | Updated Mar 21, 2004
Today and Beyond Conclusions.
Speech synthesis has been developing steadily over the last decades and it has been incorporated into several new applications. For most applications, the intelligibility and comprehensibility of synthetic speech have reached the acceptable level. However, in prosodic, text preprocessing, and pronunciation fields there is still much work and improvements to be done to achieve more natural sounding speech. Natural speech has so many dynamic changes that perfect naturalness may be impossible to achieve. However, since the markets of speech synthesis related applications are increasing steadily, the interest for giving more efforts and funds into this research area is also increasing.
Text-to-Speech Synthesis. It is quite clear that there is still very long way to go before text-to-speech synthesis, especially high-level synthesis, is fully acceptable. However, the development is going forward steadily and in the long run the technology seems to make progress faster than we can imagine. Thus, when developing a speech synthesis system, we may use almost all resources available, because in few years today's high resources are available in every personal computer. Regardless how fast the development process will be, speech synthesis, whenever used in low-cost calculators or state-of-the-art multimedia solutions, has probably the most promising future.
Speech Recognition . If speech recognition systems someday achieve a generally acceptable level, we may develop for example a communication system where the system may first analyze the speakers' voice and its characteristics, transmit only the character string with some control symbols, and finally synthesize the speech with individual sounding voice at the other end. Even interpretation from a language to another may became feasible. However,
It is obvious that we must wait for several years, maybe decades, until such systems are possible and commonly available.
Speech synthesis has been developing steadily over the last decades and it has been incorporated into several new applications. For most applications, the intelligibility and comprehensibility of synthetic speech have reached the acceptable level. However, in prosodic, text preprocessing, and pronunciation fields there is still much work and improvements to be done to achieve more natural sounding speech. Natural speech has so many dynamic changes that perfect naturalness may be impossible to achieve. However, since the markets of speech synthesis related applications are increasing steadily, the interest for giving more efforts and funds into this research area is also increasing.
Text-to-Speech Synthesis. It is quite clear that there is still very long way to go before text-to-speech synthesis, especially high-level synthesis, is fully acceptable. However, the development is going forward steadily and in the long run the technology seems to make progress faster than we can imagine. Thus, when developing a speech synthesis system, we may use almost all resources available, because in few years today's high resources are available in every personal computer. Regardless how fast the development process will be, speech synthesis, whenever used in low-cost calculators or state-of-the-art multimedia solutions, has probably the most promising future.
Speech Recognition . If speech recognition systems someday achieve a generally acceptable level, we may develop for example a communication system where the system may first analyze the speakers' voice and its characteristics, transmit only the character string with some control symbols, and finally synthesize the speech with individual sounding voice at the other end. Even interpretation from a language to another may became feasible. However,
It is obvious that we must wait for several years, maybe decades, until such systems are possible and commonly available.
