Аннотация:This paper presents development of text-to-speech algorithms suitable for realisation by microprocessors. A set of problems and methods are described: speech communication, systems, classification of the TTS-methods, models of speech production and acoustic phonetics, a few methods of speech coding, vocabularies for speech synthesis, principles of TTS-conversion, practical systems of speech synthesis, perception of synthetic speech and so on. One way of solution of this problem is proposed on the basis of the microprocessor technologies.