In this study, the potential of developing an Amharic TTS system using the TD-PSOLArnalgorithm has been investigated. In doing this thesis work, the Delphi programming language andrnthe MATLAB software have been used. Additionally, a spectrographic analysis tool called praatrnhad been used for the purpose of data preparation.rnAll the acoustic speech units have been extracted from a corpus recorded at a sampling rate ofrnI 1,025, and the whole of the corpus had been recorded at one time. Two acoustic unit types havernbeen extracted from the corpus data: diaphones and CY-Syllables. CY-Syllables are suitable forrnthe Amharic language because most of the symbols in the Amharic writing system represent arnCY -Syllable, and this makes tasks like grapheme-to-phoneme transcription easy. Due to timernconstraints only a limited number of CY-Syllables and dip hones have been extracted from therncorpus.rnTesting performance of TTS systems is one of the difficult tasks because there is no singlernmeasure to pinpoint the quality of the system. Although no standard test is available, a number ofrntesting methods have been developed. The Open Rhyme Test (ORT) and Mean Opinion Scorern(MOS) test have been used in this work to test performance.rnThe results obtained from the experiment are promising and indicative of the possibility ofrnproducing high quality TTS system for Amharic using other advanced algorithms than the onernused in this work.