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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SSML output with custom language

I'm building a simple alexa skill. I'm trying to output a text message (in italian) with some english word in it, but i don't found how let it works.. 1 try return github.getFollowersCount(search) .then((count) => { const speechOutput =…
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How to make Alexa speak phone number

I want Alexa to say phone number as digits not as its value. Ex: [Alexa] the contact number is 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0. But now Alexa says as the contact number is nine billion eight hundred seventy six million five hundred forty three thousand…
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Use text to speech in bot framework

I'm using microsoft bot framework, C# and Visual Studio and I'm trying to get the bot to reply with speech, I'm currently working with this documentation, I have added it to my code like so: [LuisIntent("GreetTheBot")] public async Task…
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Action on google SSML is not working

SSML in action on google node.js is not working. It simply tells the value along with SSML tag. Example: Hello All It simply tells that the tag like "less than speak greater than hello less than break time equal…
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Which SSML Tags are supported by Android TTS default engine

I have searched a lot unable to find any solid solution for, which are valid ssml tags supported by Android TTS default engine. could any one please update me. Will these tags support on all the android devices.
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Mixing languages in the same SSML

If I send this small piece of SSML to the speech processor I get two voices

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How do I create an SVG animation and synchronize audio

I would like to create an SVG animation and include narration using SSML, ideally I would like to be able to play the animation in a browser. I've done some research and SMIL(Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) sounds like what want, but…
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SSML: Play audio

I am using Android Studio and Google Cloud Text-To-Speech. In SSML, I would like to play audio (see the Google documentation). I know that I could play that audio file with Java only but I would like to know why it is not working with SSML. This is…
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SetOutputToDefaultAudioDevice() gets NullException

i've wanted to try out the SSML but everytime i try to run my code i get a null exception at SetOutputToDefaultAudioDevice() . I am using the Example Code from Microsoft: using System; using System.Speech.Synthesis; namespace SSML_Test { class…
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Phoneme from Jsonstream unrecognized in c#

I have a little problem with my JsonStream in C# I am reading a Json Blob in my Storage with this inside: {"id":"275177", "fremdwort":"1.FFC-Frankfurt", "ipa":"ʹeːɐ̯stɐ ɛf ɛf ʦeː ʹfraŋkfʊrt"} in C#: while (Jsonreader.Read()) …
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Text To Speech force English alphabet pronounce on some words

I use TTS voice sapi to create wav files with ssml. Sometimes there are English words like in this case: Ho visto ieri sera il film Star Wars. Because the voice is Italian "Star Wars" is not spell correctly. I have read this…
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Is SpeechSynthesisUtterance with SSML a fairy tale?

Why is SpeechSynthesisUtterance so buggy? Is the SSML XML format a fairy tale? The code goes something like this ... var txt = document.getElementById("txt").value; var speech = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(txt); speech.rate =…
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IBM Cloud - How to adjust speaking rate in Watson TTS using curl POST?

I'm having issues trying to adjust the prosody speaking rate in IBM Watson's TTS Service using curl. Here is the code I've tried, it does synthesize audio but just completely ignores the --header "prosody rate: +50%" ^ line I inserted which was to…
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Azure Speech Service CLI, using SSML Error code: 1007

I am using Azure Speech Service CLI, to synthesize with a SSML file, but I get following error CANCELED: Reason=Error CANCELED: ErrorCode=ConnectionFailure CANCELED: ErrorDetails=Connection was closed by the remote host. Error code: 1007. Error…
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Audio file not longer than 240 seconds in Alexa

I am an Alexa skill newbie and would appreciate help from the community. I am trying to figure why I keep getting "Error retrieving text to speech: The audio file cannot be longer than 240 seconds" but the audio file in question is less than 240…
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