24. The method of claim 20 wherein the step of processing a message to be synthesized by the TTS voice synthesizer further comprises the step of identifying at least one control character within the message indicating the at least one break.
25. The method of claim 24 , wherein the step of damping a change in the calculated value further comprises the step of applying a moving-average filter to average the calculated value with at least one previous value of the at least one parameter to produce a damped value.