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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...
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?
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.
