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CindeeCalton
Community Member
7 months ago

Emphasis and neural voices

Hi! I'm new to using text-to-speech. I see in this article that you cannot use the <emphasis> tag on a neural voice: SSML support I see here that there are no standard voices in American English...
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CindeeCalton
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Thanks for your reply, Ron. I'm trying to figure out how to put both volume and speed tags on one word. I tried nesting one in the other and got an error. Can I only do one?

Thanks again!

 

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JoseTansengco
Staff
7 months ago

Hi C.J., 

Happy to troubleshoot your SSML code for you. Would you mind sharing how you're trying to adjust the volume and speed of your text here so we can check if the structure of the tags is correct? Using the <prosody> tag should work for adjusting both volume and speed. Here's an example of the correct usage of the prosody tag:

<speak>
     <prosody volume="loud" rate="x-slow">Hello</prosody>
</speak>  

You'll see in the example that you can use more than one modifier for the tag, the syntax just has to be correct.

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