TTS - LONG pauses?

Apr 25, 2024

my team is criticizing that there is not enough of a breath between each bulleted item. But when I manually add silence in the audio file, I can no longer update the text because it overwrites my silences. Any way to add silences in the script itself? I looked it up and cannot find out how to do it.   

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Jürgen Schoenemeyer

you can use SSML tags for create/update TextToSpeech

e.g.

<speak>
  bullet point one
<break time="1000ms"/>
  bullet point two
<break time="1000ms"/>
  bullet point three
<break time="1000ms"/>
  bullet point four
</speak>

more SSML infos:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html#break-tag