For many years, Hawking communicated by using a voice synthesizer.

多年来，霍金一直使用语音合成器进行交流。

My speech synthesizer has been very important for this.

我的语音合成器对此非常重要。

Finally, we need to talk about Speech Synthesis, that is, giving computers the ability to output speech.

最后，我们需要说一下语音合成，也就是赋予计算机输语音的能力。

TTS means that we write a piece of text, and a computer synthesized voice will read it aloud for us.

TTS 指我们写一段文本，然后由电脑的合成语音为我们来。

He said the research team was " shocked" when it first heard the synthesized speech results.

示，该研究团队十分" 震惊" ，在首次听到合成的语音结果时，们震撼不已。

This rare form of motor neurone disease left him virtually paralyzed, unable to express his profound vision of humanity and science without a voice synthesizer.

这种罕见的运动神经元疾病使几乎瘫痪，无法对人类和科学的深刻见解，而没有语音合成器。

You can hear this chaining of phonemes very clearly with older speech synthesis technologies, like this 1937, hand-operated machine from Bell Labs.

您可以使用较早的语音合成技术非常清楚地听到这种音素链，例如贝尔实验室的这台 1937 年手动操作机器。

Also, due to the accumulation of audio technology, Yamaha launched the earliest voice synthesizer software VOCALOID, which can input lyrics and musical notes to make the software sing.

此外，由于音频技术的积累，雅马哈推了最早的语音合成软件VOCALOID，可以输入歌词和乐谱让软件演唱。

The Grok app will soon introduce a " voice mode, " providing synthesized speech, followed by the launch of Grok 3 models in xAI's enterprise API and the DeepSearch feature.

Grok 应用程序即将推“语音模式”，提供合成语音功能，随后将上线 xAI 企业级接口中的 Grok 3 模型以及“深度搜索”功能。

The principle proved, Dr Chang and his team went on to show that their system could synthesise speech even when a volunteer mimed sentences, rather than speaking them out loud.

验证了原理之后，张医生和的团队继续（向我们）展示了：甚至当志愿者只对口型而不是大声念句子的时候，们研发的系统也可以合成语音。

In the Sudan case, experts used a machine-learning algorithm trained on over a million examples of synthetic speech to prove, almost without a shadow of a doubt, that it was authentic.

在苏丹的案例中，专家们使用了一种机器学习算法，经过超过一百万个合成语音示例的训练，几乎毫无疑问地证明了它的真实性。

Nonspeaking individuals can type to speak during calls and conversations with Live Speech, people can use Personal Voice to create a synthesized voice that sounds like them for connecting with family and friends.

失语用户可以在通话和实时语音对话中通过 Live Speech 功能，实时打字“说话”；（面临失语风险的）用户则可用 Personal Voice 与自己嗓音相似的合成语音，与家人好友交流沟通。