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AI Voice Generation emphasis in SL
Hi,
Has anybody discovered a way to reliably coax the AI voice generation engine in SL360 to add emphasis to a word or phrase? For example in written text such as
"read the instructions before starting",
the italics and bold would strongly indicate the importance of reading before starting, and if I was creating my own voice recording I'd heavily lean into the word "before", to stress this.
I haven't yet found a way to do this with the AI VG engine, and you can't add bold or italics to the text dialog. I've experimented with asterisks etc., but it tends to just garble the output.
I know the whole point of AI is that it is supposed to work stuff like this out for itself through context and should do this automatically, but I do think it sometimes needs some guidance.
Any ideas or tips?
Thanks
Paul
Sorry for the quick delay here—I took this back to the team to see if anyone had thoughts/suggestions similar to what you shared about that break time markup. It seems like there's consensus that emphasis in particular is hard to achieve, when I think about this it makes sense because it's not quite a pronunciation difference, I can see why the speech models would have trouble with it! The feeling on the team is there's some experimentation needed to get the voice to flow correctly, and that sometimes experimentation with pronunciation can achieve close to what you want for emphasis.
I think you've probably already seen this based on what you referenced, but for anyone else following this thread who may be curious, here is an article the team put together that talks about some of the limitations and options with SSML models and AI speech.
Curious to keep following this and see if there are any specific practices folks have landed on that worked really well to achieve emphasis.
