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Using SSML for Text-to-Speech
I am trying to use SSML to craft a dynamic voiceover for one of my Storyline 360 lessons. I am having some issues with the program accepting the script I put in. I also don't see where I can use the...
More examples like this in your documentation of supported tags would be really helpful.
From what I read on your pages I was not really able to tell which tags might be open tags and which might be closed. I was also not really aware, at first, that many tags needed attributes. And, to be clear, I am well verse in HTML, but didn't pick up on these things based on how little was provided. Going to Amazon's documentation helped with proper/complete tags, but then it's possible that the tags are not supported... all of this resulted in many error messages, because the tags were just not formed correctly, even though they were in the list.
And, since there was some messaging about not all tags being supported for all voices (standard vs neural, etc), it left me feeling a bit... underwhelmed, and dubious of the implementation, even though I was very much excited when I first saw that it was now available.
So, I am happy to see this example, and while this post probably seems negative, I really am just wanting to suggest that more examples get put into the documentation pages, so it's easier to try things out and get good results while playing with the various tags/attributes/options :)
I have to agree that the SSML Support page would benefit from adding information to clarify exactly which SSML tags work in SL -- this is six months later from the original date of this thread and the SSML Support page hasn't been updated since May 9, 2024.
Maybe create separate tables for which tags work with Standard Voices only, and which work with Neural Voices? A co-worker and I spent over an hour trying to trouble-shoot markup language for a Neural voice only to belatedly realize that the particular attribute we were trying to apply only works with Standard Voices. <sigh>
Hi Annette,
Hope that you're having a great start to your week! Our team appreciates your feedback. I wanted to share an update with you!
We've updated this article to provide more clarity when checking whether an SSML tag is supported for a particular voice and share additional information on all supported tags.
Let us know your thoughts! I hope this is helpful!
