14. A system for generating a script to be read by a speaker to produce a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, the system comprising: a text database storing at least a dictionary of words and a pronunciation guide indicating a pronunciation of each of the words in the dictionary; at least one processor capable of accessing the text database, the at least one processor configured to implement: an extracting unit to obtain a list of phonemes to be uttered when the script is read by a speaker; a selecting unit to automatically select a first plurality of words from the dictionary based on the pronunciation guide such that the plurality of words, when uttered by the speaker, produces at least the phonemes in the list of phonemes; and an autonomous language generating unit to obtain at least one template defining structural properties of at least one grammar, and to automatically generate a cohesive script based, at least in part, on the at least one template and the first plurality of words, wherein the cohesive script comprises multiple sentences, and wherein at least two of the multiple sentences have conceptual coherence when considered together.
14. A system for generating a script to be read by a speaker to produce a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, the system comprising: a text database storing at least a dictionary of words and a pronunciation guide indicating a pronunciation of each of the words in the dictionary; at least one processor capable of accessing the text database, the at least one processor configured to implement: an extracting unit to obtain a list of phonemes to be uttered when the script is read by a speaker; a selecting unit to automatically select a first plurality of words from the dictionary based on the pronunciation guide such that the plurality of words, when uttered by the speaker, produces at least the phonemes in the list of phonemes; and an autonomous language generating unit to obtain at least one template defining structural properties of at least one grammar, and to automatically generate a cohesive script based, at least in part, on the at least one template and the first plurality of words, wherein the cohesive script comprises multiple sentences, and wherein at least two of the multiple sentences have conceptual coherence when considered together. 21. The system of claim 14 , wherein all of the sentences in the coherent script have conceptual coherence.