Advantages / Disadvantages Of Speech Synthesis

Advantages

• Speech Synthesis systems can be adapted easily to say whatever users want them to say. For example, for a medication reminder system that uses a synthetic voice, changes in medication or in the medication regime are no problem. In contrast, a system that uses a human voice might need new data might to be recorded.

• Typical Speech Synthesis systems offer a range of different accents and voices, whereas systems that use pre-recorded human voices may offer only one or two.

Disadvantages

• Despite large improvements, Speech Synthesis can still sound a little unnatural.

• The approaches to Speech Synthesis that yield the most natural speech need considerable resources in terms of data storage and processing power.