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Actually, wiki is a pretty good resource here. People have been doing speech synthesis for a really surprisingly long time, and doing pretty well at it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis
As for your question about "Sss" vs. "Shh", it is actually amazing that our brains are so good at fuzzy logic that they are able to not only distinguish between these sounds, but even understand them over a radio with limited bandwidth or from someone who is heavily accented. The actual waveform difference is a matter of filtering different frequencies. The "sss" has lots of very high-frequency content, while the "shh" is much lower.
If you're not familiar, Charles Dodge wrote like the manual for synthesis. Don't be put off by the title, many of the techniques are applicable outside of computers:
https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Synthesis-Composition-Performance/dp/0028646827
If you want a general, but very broad (it's a huge fucking book ~1200pgs) overview check out The Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads. If you have a strong math background and really want to get into the nuts and bolts of digital sound check out The Audio Programming Book by Richard Boulange. For something sort of in the middle Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance by Charles Dodge. I took a two years of sound design / engineering at a UC campus. These were the three books we referenced most.