The voise is the most fundamental method of human communication. But it was too hard to handle by the computer. So we have not paid attention to it. Recently a system has been developed for the automatic synthesis of speech from Japanese text inputted by the word processor. The problems of the speech sysnthesizer by rule and parser of Japanese are explained. In order to spread the device, the problem of finding effective usage must be solved. Some examples of utilization are discribed. Those are proofing systems, automatic answering systems by telephone, warning systems, trainning systems, amusement systems, and systems for handicapped persons.
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