I'm interested in the state-of-the-art of vocal sound synthesis. Please advise me [closed]

1. What does voice mean in synthesis?
2. What uses voice synthesis?
3. Which technique is used in speech synthesis?
4. Where is speech synthesis used?

What does voice mean in synthesis?

voice synthesis in British English

(vɔɪs ˈsɪnθɪsɪs ) noun. computing. the artificial production of the human voice. Today, voice synthesis is just about adequate for text-to-speech.

What uses voice synthesis?

Known as statistical parametric TTS, the computer generates audio using basic sound frequencies to mimic the human voice, like a musical instrument. Making sounds from scratch allows the speech synthesizer to say anything, including foreign words or even words that don't exist.

Which technique is used in speech synthesis?

The Concatenative speech synthesis technique is a corpus-based technique that uses some pre-recorded speech samples (words, syllables, half-syllables, phonemes, di- phones or triphones) in a database and produces the output speech by concatent- ing appropriate units based on the entered text utterances [62].

Where is speech synthesis used?

The counterpart of the voice recognition, speech synthesis is mostly used for translating text information into audio information and in applications such as voice-enabled services and mobile applications.