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Speech Synthesis

software with the ability to read text files and translate the text
into spoken words. Although unable to mimic a human voice perfectly, many
such applications do a commendable job of generating recognizable speech in
both male and female tones. Speech synthesis applications are also used for
automated telephone inquiries. For example, a credit card holder can call a
customer service number almost any time of the day, and after keying in his
account number, receive computer generated information in the form of synthesized
human speech. Additionally, speech synthesis can be particularly
useful for sight-impaired individuals.