Overview Of Text-To-Speech Conversion Facilities (TTSCF)

1. "Hardware Interface:" This module provides the interface to the TTSCF board.
2. "SC01 Interface:" This module provides the low level routines necessary for the conversion of SCA to SCB conversion. Setting the parameters of SC01 are also done through this module.

3. "IPA2SC conversion:" a [left] [match] [right] [out] set of rules are used to convert IPA strings to SCA strings.
4. "ENG2IPA conversion:" ENG2IPA conversion is done through NRL rules.
5. "Binary Table Editor:" Is a very simple data base manager. It handles simple tables (relations). All data base items are of the form <"key", "value"> where both "key" and "value" are strings.
6. "SCA Dictionary:" Tuples of this relation are of the form "English-word" "sca-phonemes". English-word is used as the key for locating sca-phonemes.
7. "IPA Dictionary:" Tuples of this relation are of the form "English-word" "ipa". English-word is used as the key for locating ipa.
8. "Phrase Analyzer:" Decides on how an English phrase should be treated. Depending on the option settings, does the translation in the proper format.

TTSCF services can logically be categorized as Phonetic Speech Synthesizer.