Text-to-speech system having a lexicon residing on the host processor

摘要

A text-to-speech system is provided having a host system operable to perform a text-to-speech application program. The host system includes a memory storing the lexicon for a separate text-to-speech device. By using the host system to contain the lexicon, a sufficient amount of memory is made available. Therefore, a very complex lexicon can be provided and more information made available to the voice synthesizer on the text-­to-speech device. This partitioning of the text-to-speech system between the host system and the text-to-speech device allows the computation-intensive processes to be performed on the text-to-­speech device while providing a large memory to contain the lexicon information.