1. A computer-implemented method configured for use in a text-to-speech (TTS) system comprising: identifying, using one or more processors, a word or phrase as a named entity; identifying a language of origin associated with the named entity; transliterating the named entity to a script associated with the language of origin; if the TTS system is operating in the language of origin, passing the transliterated script to the TTS system; and if the TTS system is not operating in the language of origin, generating a phoneme sequence in the language of origin using a grapheme to phoneme (G2P) converter.