Speech synthesizer with multimodal blending

A machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on a touch-sensitive display screen, the GUI depicting a word to be pronounced, the word including a sequentially first alphabetic letter and a sequentially second alphabetic letter;
• detecting a drag speed of a touch input on the touch-sensitive display screen;
• determining that the detected drag speed of the touch input falls into a first range of drag speeds among a plurality of ranges of drag speeds;
• and
• based on the detected drag speed falling into the first range of drag speeds, selecting whether the word is to be pronounced by sequentially playing at least a first audio file and a second audio file, the first audio file representing a first phoneme that pronounces the sequentially first alphabetic letter of the word, the second audio file representing a second phoneme that pronounces the sequentially second alphabetic letter of the word.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor among the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on a touch-sensitive display screen, the GUI depicting a word to be pronounced, the word including a sequentially first alphabetic letter and a sequentially second alphabetic letter;
• detecting a drag speed of a touch input on the touch-sensitive display screen:
• determining that the detected drag speed of the touch input falls into a first range of drag speeds among a plurality of ranges of drag speeds;
• and
• based on the detected drag speed falling into the first range of drag speeds, selecting whether the word is to be pronounced by sequentially playing at least a first audio file and a second audio file, the first audio file representing a first phoneme that pronounces the sequentially first alphabetic letter of the word, the second audio file representing a second phoneme that pronounces the sequentially second alphabetic letter of the word.