Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
The production of speech sounds by mechanical means, generally from text input. Speech synthesis is now a common technology, used in telephone information systems (in the United States) and in reading machines for the blind.
Speech recognition reverses the conversion, extracting text from acoustic signals.
Reference
Denes, P. 1973. The speech chain: the physics and biology of spoken language. Garden City, NY.
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