Interesting Links & References FreeTTS 1.1 - An english speech synthesizer written in Java Flite - A small, fast runtime synthesis engine The Talking Computer - Text to Speech Synthesis - A basic introduction to TTS - Joseph P Olive A Short Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis - Thierry Dutoit Spoken Output Technologies - Ron Cole Text Processing of Indian Languages - Chandrashekhar Raje W3C Working Draft on Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification for the Speech Interface Framework Java Speech API Home Page Microsoft Speech.NET Technologies The Festival Speech Synthesis System AT&T Labs Research - Synthesis of audible speech from text The MBROLA project The Unicode Standard (3.0) Chapter 9 - South and South East Asian Scripts Schwa Deletion in Hindi TTS Synthesis