General TTS tutorial

This tutorial contains non-technical informations on TTS or Text-to-Speech. It's meant for all people who are new to the field of TTS and try to figure out which aspects to check or which possible ways to go.

Introduction

TTS stands for text-to-speech technology. There are many different methods converting textual input to audio output. Currently, machile-learning method of text-to-speech conversion is becoming the dominant method of TTS. To use TTS you have two options: (1) use an existing application/service or (2) build a new one. There are TTS services developed for widely-used languages such as English, German, French, Russian etc. Major platforms such as Google, Windows support these languages by default. If you want to synthesize