Modern methods of speech synthesis

We have examined various aspects of how to produce synthetic speech. There are numerous applications for such synthetic speech, mostly when starting from a textual input, i.e., TTS. Given the large amount of text in databases and the public´s need to access information efficiently, synthetic speech is a natural way to obtain information. A major application of the future will be speech-to-speech translation, in which a person speaking in one language will be able to converse automatically with someone using another language: ASR would transcribe the original speech to a textual form in language A, then an automatic text translator would map that text to language B, and finally a TTS system for this second language would generate the output speech.