Spoken language interfaces (1)
Speech is the most intuitive and most natural communicating modality for most people.
To design powerful speech interfaces, one should be aware of the strengths and limitations of speech synthesis, speech recognition, spoken language understanding, and user interface technologies.
Spoken language interfaces depend heavily on text-to-speech systems.
A well-known text-to-phoneme system is the Festival Speech System developed at the University of Edinburgh, U.K.