Co-articulated consonant consonant such as is doubly or secondarily articulated. In some English dialects, for example, is a labialized velar that could be transcribed as , but the Japanese is closer to a true labial-velar, . It is common usage to restrict the letter to the former. The glottis controls phonation, and works simultaneously with many consonants. It is not normally considered an articulator, and an ejective such as , with simultaneous closure of the velum and glottis, is not normally considered to be a co-articulated consonant. Co-articulated consonant Co-articulated consonants or complex consonants are consonants produced with two simultaneous places of
Speech synthesis specific usage domains, the storage of entire words or sentences allows for high-quality output. Alternatively, a synthesizer can incorporate a model of the vocal tract and other human voice characteristics to create a completely "synthetic" voice output. The quality of a speech synthesizer is judged by its similarity to the human voice and by its ability to be understood clearly. An intelligible text-to-speech program allows people with visual impairments or reading disabilities to listen to written words on a home computer. Many computer operating systems have included speech synthesizers since the early 1990s. A text-to-speech system (or "engine") is composed