Malay language Malay languages Speech Speech recognition Speech synthesis Syllabification TTS Text to speech speech acts speech synthesis Accuracy rate Acoustic phonetic Acoustical properties Anthropomorphic robots Computational linguistics Elongation Expressive speech synthesis First order differences Formant analysis Hidden Markov models Human computer interaction Human like Human robot interaction Intelligent control International phonetic alphabet Malay vowels Malaysian context Markov processes Multi-layer perceptron neural networks Network layers