
See here for a list of supported symbols.

In addition, you can use the ph attribute to set the phonetic pronunciation to speak. Set the phonetic alphabet to use with the alphabet attribute. Phonetic pronunciation for specified words or phrases. Possible languages are: en-US, en-GB, en-IN, en-AU, en-CA, de-DE, es-ES, it-IT, ja-JP, fr-FR (English, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, French). Set the language with the xml:lang attribute. Specify another language for specific words or phrases. Emphasis can be modified with the level attribute. More emphasis generates louder and slower speech while less emphasis generates quieter and faster speech. This tag changes the rate and volume of speech. See below for possible values.Įmphasize words or phrases. The strength attribute can also be used for pauses. Include the unit s or ms when setting a time. Set the length of the pause with the time attribute. When using an Amazon Polly voice, please refer to instead. The rest of the SSML tags will be placed inside the verb.īelow are the supported SSML tags. But, when using SSML with the verb, you can ignore those tags. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is an XML-based markup language that provides a standard way to mark up text for synthesized speech. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) The text that will be read to the caller. Plain text limit: 4,096 unicode characters The noun of a LaML verb is nested within the verb upon which the verb acts.

The following languages are permitted: Value The available Google Cloud voices are here The available Amazon Polly voices are here See below for all language specifications. The attribute language allows you to specify the dialect (language and locale) of voice. If loop is set to 0, the text will be continuously repeated until the call is terminated. The attribute loop specifies the number of times a text is to be repeated. See below for language specifications on each of these voices. alice is deprecated and provided for backward compatibility. Polly Neural and Google Wavenet voices are charged a premium price compared to Polly Standard and Google Standard voices. and ending them with -Neural, Google Cloud voices by prefixing them with gcloud. The attribute voice supports: man, woman, alice, Amazon Polly voices by prefixing them with Polly., Amazon Polly Neural voices by prefixing them with Polly.


The gender and language in which the text will be read is customizable. It is useful for text that is difficult to pre-record. The verb reads the supplied text back to the caller.
