Chapter II language features of discussion texts 1 Antonyms Examining discussions

It is important, and will help Antonyms their understanding, if they are given situations to discuss where there are many different points of view. This will broaden their thinking and make them aware that the same situation can be viewed from different perspectives. Discussion text can be found in talkback radio when people with varying perspectives comment; interviews when speakers with different points of view are questioned; letters to the editor when people respond in different ways to an issue; and in newspaper articles. They can also be found in editorials, trial judgments’ and videotaped results. Students can write discussions on issues from different Key Learning Areas.
Chapter I Structure and features of discussion texts
WHAT IS TEXT-TO-SPEECH AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
Some of our readers are linguistic or software geniuses with a complete understanding of Text-to-Speech software. But some of you may be relatively new to this part of speech technology and you may have found yourself wondering, what is text-to-speech and how does it work?
WHAT IS TTS?
TTS stands for Text-to-Speech (also written as Text to Speech) – a form of speech synthesis that converts text into voice output. Text-To-Speech software basically takes the text you write and turns it into speech files that you can use. From text to speech – nice and simple!
OKAY, BUT HOW DOES TEXT TO SPEECH WORK?
Antonyms There are numerous ways you can create audio from text. At Neo Speech, we use a process called Unit Selection Synthesis (USS). The process starts on both ends— voice database building language text processing —that meets in the middle to produce speech. But for purposes of understanding, we’re going to break down into a simple 6 step process to show you how we create such high quality speech.
Discussion text can be found in talkback radio when people with varying perspectives comment; interviews when speakers with different points of view are questioned; letters to the editor when people respond in different ways to an issue; and in newspaper articles. They can also be found in editorials, trial judgments’ and videotaped results. Students can write discussions on issues from different Key Learning Areas.

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