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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
Community Member
6 months ago

Thanks to all that tried to help. I tried adding pauses as Suzanne suggested. I was able to hear the changes better but no matter how short I made the pause, it sounded very weird. I think it needs a pitch change to work. I am just going to change the script to something that doesn't sound weird. Maybe Articulate will add the ability to edit pitch in neural voices soon.

Side note: is the only way to test your markup to save it, and open the audio and go back and forth?

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    JoseTansengco
    Staff
    6 months ago

    Hi C.J.,

    Yes, that is correct. The audio file needs to be generated by Storyline 360's text-to-speech service before you can preview it so there isn't a way to test the markup without first saving.

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