Abstract: Method and system for computer-aided speed synthesis for synthesizing electronic text by performing a predefined series of rules-based analyses in a predefined order, each of the analyses operating in a graduated manner to convert respective electronic text into electronic lexicons, and announcing analog speech based on the results of the performing step.

Abstract: Method and system for computer-aided speed synthesis for synthesizing electronic text by performing a predefined series of rules-based analyses in a predefined order, each of the analyses operating in a graduated manner to convert respective electronic text into electronic lexicons, and announcing analog speech based on the results of the performing step.

Abstract: The speech recognition rate which is necessary is determined for a selected speech recognition application. The information content of the feature vector components which is at least necessary to ensure the speech recognition rate is determined using a stored speech recognition rate information. The number of necessary feature vector components which is necessary to make available the determined information content is determined and the speech recognition is carried out using feature vectors with the determined required number of feature vector components.