Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Speech Synthesis
software with the ability to read text files and translate the text into spoken words. Although unable to mimic a human voice perfectly, many such applications do a commendable job of generating recognizable speech in both male and female tones. Speech synthesis applications are also used for automated telephone inquiries. For example, a credit card holder can call a customer service number almost any time of the day, and after keying in his account number, receive computer generated information in the form of synthesized human speech. Additionally, speech synthesis can be particularly useful for sight-impaired individuals.
