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Google defines speech synthesis as "the process of generating spoken language by machine on the basis of written input." Tech Target defines speech synthesis as "computer-generated simulation of human speech". Macmillan Dictionary offers a more straightforward definition of speech synthesis, it defines speech synthesis as, "a process in which a computer produces sounds that are similar to human speech". We can see applications of speech synthesis in many places in our daily lives. For instance, when we call mobile network customer support for Personal Unblocking Code, we encounter the network's Automated Voice Response System which makes use of speech synthesis. Speech synthesis is an important automation technology which eliminates the need for humans in structured interactions and by doing so improves an organization's bottom line by a significant margin and also guarantees customer satisfaction in nearly every interaction. You can understand how speech synthesis works from Code Welt's Online Text to Speech Synthesizer.
With Google's Speech Synthesis API, we can implement speech synthesis in JavaScript with only a few lines of code. The API is available from Chrome 33. We will discuss the simplest use case of the API. Press F12 to open Chrome Developer Tool and go to the "Console" tab. Copy the code from chrome-speech-synthesis-api-implementation-we-love-google.js and paste the code in the Chrome Developer Tool Console. Press enter to hear the synthesized speech. The first line of code creates an object of SpeechSynthesisUtterance class. The text which will be converted to speech ("We love Google.") is passed as a string to the constructor. The object is passed to the speak method through the message variable. This is the simplest possible example of Speech Synthesis API implementation, but you can control almost anything through the supported parameters. Altering voice, voice URI, volume, rate, pitch, text, and language is supported. At the moment, there are 20 supported voices from West Bengal, India, and they are, native (default), Google Deutsch, Google US English, Google UK English Female, Google UK English Male, Google español, Google español de Estados Unidos, Google français, Google हिन्दी, Google Bahasa Indonesia, Google italiano, Google 日本語, Google 한국의, Google Nederlands, Google polski, Google português do Brasil, Google русский, Google 普通话（中国大陆）, Google 粤語（香港）, & Google 國語（臺灣） . Keep in mind that the supported voices may vary depending on the location. Eric Bidelman recommends the use of speech synthesis feature detection in order to use code which depends on the feature.
As you can understand, the speech synthesis feature can be very useful in web app development. It can make a web app extraordinary. To give an example, many people find reading boring nowadays. The way recommended by UX experts is to break long texts in small parts so that the reader (user) does not get bored. That does not solve the problem completely. You can break a long sentence in may be three or more smaller sentences but how will you keep the user engaged in an effective way when you need to keep them interested paragraph after paragraphs? ... and that's where speech synthesis comes in. If you want users to keep engaged in an article of 5,000 words there is no better way than offering an option to listen to an audio version. The user can listen to the audio version while doing other work and it will not stress their eyes. Speech synthesis not only improves user experience, it can also improve the web app's accessibility to blind people.
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