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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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Does anyone know if AVSpeechUtterance supports SSML?

Was wondering if anyone knew if AVSpeechUtterance supports SSML?
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Change voice in Action

How do I change the voice during my response in "Actions on Google"? Is there an SSML code to temporarily change the voice, for example, from male to female, while reading a quotation?
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Error: Unable to parse the provided SSML. The provided text is not valid SSML

I am receiving this error when using the Test section of the Alexa Developer portal website Error: Unable to parse the provided SSML. The provided text is not valid SSML. The error occurs after I get a successful response and I press the listen…
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Alexa SSML not playing

I am trying to get into ASK and I just tried a dummy example with SSML. I am using Amazon Lambda and Python. If I test my code from the Lambda console I get the expected output: { "version": "1.0", "response": { "outputSpeech": { …
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Can C# SAPI speak SSML string?

I implemented a TTS in my C# WPF project. Previously, I use the TTS in System.Speech.Synthesis namespace to speak. The speaking content is in SSML format (Speech Synthesizer Markup Language, support customize the speaking rate, voice, emphasize)…
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Microsoft TTS and Apache HttpRequest

I am working with Microsoft Cognitive Services and submitting some TTS over the Rest API. If I submit the xml listed below directly to the service via postman, it works fine, if I submit the xml below via my java code I…
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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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pause in alexa sdk v2 responsebuilder

In Alexa V1 a pause can be easily built in response by using ssml. this.emit(':tell', "Pause now . Start again"); But in Alexa SDK V2, the code (encoding the special characters): handle(handlerInput) { return…
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Is it possible to add speech disfluency to SSML with Dialogflow?

Is it possible to add some disfluency words like "mmh-mh", "huh", "uh", "erm", "um"," "hmm" into a Dialogflow conversation (only interacting by voice) using SSML? Currently, when I add "mmh" to a sentence, it will be being spoken as characters m-m-h…
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Google Action with SSML rejected for "having HTML tags"

I submitted my first Action on Google last week. I have written the code using Dialogflow and WebhookClient, and targeted 2 languages - English and Hindi. My Action was approved for English, but got back a "denied" status for Hindi with the review…
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Unwanted pauses when using tag in SSML for TTS

I am writing and marking up spoken utterances for an VUI tool. We are using Google Cloud Wave-net for our TTS service, and I have been trying to use SSML to make the TTS output more natural. When I add the tag "prosody", the TTS output adds a pause…
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Actions of Google doesn't play correctly SSML emphasis and consider it as a paragraph

I found that when I'm sending back a response with inside of sentence Actions of Google considers it as a new paragraph and breaks the sentance. For example:

Do you like red,…

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Alexa Flash Briefing API with SSML

I have created a simple flash briefing skill that reads from a rss feed. However it is pronouncing the name of the company wrong. I have reviewed the SSML page on the amazon developer site, but i do not see a way to get to the js that runs the…
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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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