Which scenario is speech synthesis?
Why B is the answer
Reading a text reply aloud to the user
Speech synthesis, or text to speech, turns text into spoken audio.
In detail
- Speech synthesis turns text into spoken audio.
- Neural voices sound more natural.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A banking app reads a balance aloud to a user. Turning that text into a voice is speech synthesis.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Spoken question"] --> B["Speech to text"] B --> C["Model answers"] C --> D["Text to speech"] D --> E["Spoken answer"]
sequenceDiagram participant U as User participant S as Azure Speech participant M as Model U->>S: Spoken question S->>M: Text M-->>S: Text reply S-->>U: Spoken reply
flowchart TD
Q{"Which way is it going?"}
Q -->|"Audio to text"| A0["Speech recognition"]
Q -->|"Text to audio"| A1["Speech synthesis"]Key point: Text to audio is speech synthesis.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Finding a person's name in a long paragraph
- That is entity recognition.
- C. Detecting faces in a security camera image
- That is a vision task.
- D. Transcribing a phone call into a written record
- That is speech recognition.