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Text-to-Speech

TTS

Text-to-speech turns written text into spoken audio.

Explained simply

Text-to-speech turns written text into spoken audio.

1Written text
→
2Speech model
→
3Synthetic voice
→
4Audio

At a glance

Category
Audio AI
Difficulty
Beginner
Introduced
1968

Real example

A navigation app reads driving directions aloud.

Why it matters

It gives you a clear way to understand where this idea fits in AI and how it affects the tools you use.

Timeline

Origins

The ideas behind Text-to-Speech begin developing.

1968

Text-to-Speech becomes a recognised term or technique.

Wider use

Research and practical applications increase.

Modern AI

Text-to-Speech becomes connected to newer AI systems and products.

Today

Text-to-Speech remains relevant in the audio ai area of AI.

Dates for broad concepts may describe the period when the idea emerged or became widely used, rather than one exact invention date.

Learn next

Continue with these connected terms:

Speech-to-TextSpeech-to-text turns spoken words into written text.→Voice CloningVoice cloning creates synthetic speech that sounds like a particular person’s voice.→Multimodal AIMultimodal AI can understand or create more than one type of information, such as text, images, audio and video.→

Simple infographic

A quick visual way to understand Text-to-Speech.

1Written text
→
2Speech model
→
3Synthetic voice
→
4Audio
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