Joseph is working in a modern office with speech recognition equipment, including a computer that is capable of both understanding and producing sounds resembling spoken words. His first step is to train the computer to recognize his speaking style, taking into account his accent, pronunciation, and idiomatic expressions.
-Joseph has noticed that a visually impaired co-worker has a ____ to read the computer screen aloud when she browses the Internet.
A) speech recognizer
B) rasterizer
C) speech synthesizer
D) MIDI

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A speech synthesizer is a technology that produces artificial speech by converting written text into spoken words. This would allow the visually impaired co-worker to have the computer's screen read aloud to them. A speech recognizer (A) is used for training the computer to recognize spoken words, a rasterizer (B) converts images into a format suitable for display on a screen, and MIDI (D) is a digital protocol used for communicating musical information between devices.

Joseph Is Working in a Modern Office with Speech Recognition