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Text to Speech Conversion Facilities

This section describes TTSCF in terms familiar to an computer user. Figure 7.1 represents the functional components of TTSCF.

+-------------------------------------------------------------- +
|                         U S E R                               |
+-------------------------------------------------------------- +
+------------------+   +-------------------+  +-----------------+
|  TEXT TO SPEECH  |   |   NESTED          |  | TEXT TO SPEECH  |
|   APPLICATIONS   |   |   MENU            |  |    LIBRARY      |
|                  |   |   HANDLER         |  |                 |
+------------------+   +-------------------+  +-----------------+
 
+--------------+       +----------------------------------------+
|              |       |        ENGLISH                         |
|              |       |        PHRASE                          |
|              |       |        ANALYZER                        |
|              |       +----------------------------------------+
|              |       +---+  +--------+   +--------------------+
|              |       | T |  | IPA    |   |                    |
|              |       | A |  | DICT-  |   |   ENG2IPA          |
|              |       | B |  | IONARY |   |   by rules         |
|  TELEPHONE   |       | L |  +--------+   +--------------------+
|              |       | E |
|  LINE        |       |   |
|              |       | E |  +--------+   +--------------------+
|  INTERFACE   |       | D |  | SCA    |   |                    |
|              |       | I |  | DICT-  |   |   IPA2SC           |
|              |       | T |  | IONARY |   |   by rules         |
|              |       +---+  +--------+   +--------------------+
|              |       +----------------------------------------+
|              |       |                                        |
|              |       |          SC01  INTERFACE               |
|              |       |                                        |
+--------------+       +----------------------------------------+
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------- +
|            PHONEME GENERATOR HARDWARE INTERFACER              |
+-------------------------------------------------------------- +
 
+============================================================== +
|                   PHONEME GENERATOR HARDWARE                  |
=============================================================== +

**Figure 7.1:** Functional components of TTSCF
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