Questions tagged [ssml]

Speech Synthesis Markup Language(SSML) is a web standard for generating synthetic speech for voice-impaired users or device audio output.

SSML can be used to create software which integrates with voice services such as Skype to provide text-to-speech capabilities.

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Phonemes in SSML Universal Windows

I am working on a universal windows translator application for state level translation. I want to make my device speak translated text. The translated language is state level language something like making my device speak Hindi translated text. Is…

asked Aug 26 '16 at 13:20

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Having troubles with Amazon Echo (Alexa) and SSML

I'm trying to handle better phonetic pronunciations and pausing with Alexa+Lambda+Javascript. I see from the docs: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/speech-synthesis-markup-language-ssml-reference that you are…

javascript aws-lambda alexa ssml

asked Jun 16 '16 at 23:56

Victor Oliveira Antonino

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Is xml header necessary in ssml request in the SSML Specification?

I wonder if we strictly need to specify xml header in our requests to ssml synthesizers like the following: hello world or does the SSML standard also allow this?: hello world

xml-parsing synthesizer ssml

asked May 26 '16 at 06:02

fatihk

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Say currency with Spanish

I want to play text to speech with ssml. var prompt = new StringBuilder();. prompt.Append(@"$"); prompt.Append({0}); prompt.Append(@""); Then we can Play prompt.ToString() as TTS. It works fine for English. The…

text-to-speech ssml

asked Nov 25 '15 at 15:39

user1108948

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Can any TTS engine change a voice's language, and subsequently its phoneme?

Lets say I want to have some English text spoken in an Italian accent. Many of the engine demos I have tried on their respected sites will have the Italian language available, but when you try to get it to pronounce a few sentences in English, they…

text-to-speech ssml

asked Nov 14 '15 at 18:03

Akiva

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Audio spells markup when ssml format passed in Ivona

when i call Ivona API with input as ssml format, i get audio which pronounce ssml markup. How to correctly call using ssml as input.

text-to-speech ssml

asked Jul 19 '15 at 20:00

Vishal

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Windows Phone 8 text-to-speech using SSML - tag exception on real device

i'm implementing simple speech reconition and synthesis (SSML) on WP8. When i test the app in emulator, everything is all right. But when i test the app on physical device (HTC Windows Phone X8), there occurs one problem with SSML synthesis. This…

windows-phone-8 text-to-speech ssml

asked Apr 02 '13 at 21:20

untosabla

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How to slow down text to Speech with SSML - voice sounds distorted/warped/ghastly

i am using nuance dragon mobile sdk for iPhone, for using text to speech. The readed text is a little bit to fast and i want to make it slower, so the user can learn the words. My aim is to slow down the text a bit. That works very fine with SSML…

ios text-to-speech voice slowdown ssml

asked Apr 24 '12 at 12:37

brush51

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how to do pause after paragraph while textToSpeech

i have a text which is used for textToSpeech. i want to do a pause in the text which is readed from the dragon mobile SDK for iPhone. the text is without the SSML. only blanc text. What kind of charactars can i use for pause? I know that after a " .…

ios text-to-speech ssml

asked Apr 16 '12 at 12:03

brush51