Under The Hood: Speech Synthesis
We’ve previously written about one of our core technologies at Cobalt Speech & Language - automatic speech recognition (ASR). When you speak, the ASR system converts your spoken words into text. Another core technology at Cobalt is text-to-speech (TTS), or speech synthesis, which converts written words into spoken audio.
One place that TTS voices are currently reaching large audiences is in virtual assistants. They can perform a multitude of tasks and it would be impossible to pre-record all of their answers in advance. Hence, virtual assistants use TTS technology to automatically generate responses to questions, allowing them to talk to you about a wide range of topics.