Text-to-speech
Text-to-speech converts writing into spoken audio, and punctuation controls the rhythm more than most students expect.
AI for Kids · Class 6 · Module 6 of 9
Voice, Sound and Expression
A computer can now read your story aloud in almost any voice. That raises a question worth asking.
8 sessionsSessions 41–48
4 weeksTypical pace
FoundationLevel
Class 6Artificial Intelligence
The big idea
Text-to-speech turns writing into audio, opening up storytelling and accessibility. It also opens up voice cloning, so consent and disclosure are taught here as firm rules rather than suggestions.
Why it matters
Voice is personal. Understanding early that a voice can be copied is genuine protection, not scaremongering.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
Pronunciation
Pronunciation needs checking, especially for names and Indian place names, which many models get wrong.
Consent and voice safety
Consent and voice safety: never clone someone’s voice without permission, and always disclose when audio is synthetic.
Did you know?
Text-to-speech was built for accessibility long before entertainment — screen readers have helped blind users navigate computers since the 1980s.
Common mix-up
“A recognisable voice proves who spoke.” It no longer does. Voice alone is not evidence of identity.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 41–48 of the 72-session year, at two one-hour sessions per week.
- 1
Warm-up and big picture
Where this module fits, what you will build, and a hands-on starter that gets everyone curious about text-to-speech.
- 2
Text-to-speech
Guided teaching on text-to-speech, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
Text-to-speech — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
Pronunciation
Guided teaching on pronunciation, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
Pronunciation — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine text-to-speech and pronunciation in one piece of work.
- 6
Consent and voice safety
Consent and voice safety introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: One-minute educational audio story.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
One-minute educational audio story
Every module ends with something the student built themselves and can demonstrate. This is the piece that goes into their portfolio and gets explained out loud at the end of session 48.
Try this at home
Record yourself reading a paragraph, then generate the same paragraph synthetically. List three differences a careful listener would notice.
It is finished when
- It works from start to finish without breaking
- You can explain every part of it in your own words
- You tested it and improved at least one thing afterwards
- Someone else used or understood it without your help
By the end of this module
Students finishing Module 6 can:
- Explain and use text-to-speech without prompting
- Explain and use pronunciation without prompting
- Explain and use consent and voice safety without prompting
- Build and finish one-minute educational audio story
- Test your own work and correct what you find
- Talk an adult through what you made and why
Word bank
The vocabulary introduced here, in plain language:
- text-to-speech
- Technology that reads written text aloud.
- synthetic media
- Audio, image or video generated by a machine.
- consent
- Clear permission given before using someone’s likeness or voice.
Module challenge
Think you have got this?
0 XPLevel 1 · Curious Beginner
6 quick questions drawn from this module — vocabulary, the project you build, and a myth-or-fact round. Every wrong answer explains itself, so a mistake still teaches you something.
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