Well give you questions from what we have studied so far. You have two answer choices for each question. Let's check with Anna and Rodrigo if you have learned Japanese expressions and grammar correctly.
The title track is a grower for me. Her voice using a higher range or at least with a gentler style on Missing really captured my attention, but other aspects of the mix were not synergistic. I sense Hannah Reid could do with a solo female vocalist side project as her voice is incredible and she has so much to potentially offer with other styles.
Yes I bought this on the strength of the title track I have the plain black vinyl copy but not played it yet. I have the 45rpm debut which I really enjoy but the 2nd LP was just a poor copy of that one I ended up selling it for double what I paid for it so no complaints.
@Alley_Cat apparently some extra tracks, but not sure if they are new ones or just remixes. Will post here what they are when it arrives. I saw on you tube they are doing live concert at 7pm uk time on Sunday as well if anybody interested.
Sound quality seems significant better on vinyl than cd to me (and not because of the whole vinyl vs cd debate), vinyl has greater dynamics when compared to more flat / compressed cd copy. Much more pronounced difference than usual between two formats.
Feels like some nice escapism, which could be good for these times and the weather has turned up at the same time. Will be enjoying a cold one later in the garden with the Bbq and Hannah and her mates are invited, reckon it will be good combi.
Perhaps some people are listening to this album as an audiophile with the relevant audiophile hat on observing sound quality and production , rather than listening to the songs themselves, the lyrics and meaning etc.
Just a guess and suggestion.
I have all Daughters albums, all very good including the soundtrack they produced. They are far more atmospheric and darker than LG are or would ever be. The XX too have grown with each album, there last surpassing even their stunning debut.
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I haven't tested this yet so therefore this is why I am asking, but more importantly if the answer is "yes" are there other characters that will trigger system audio to do other specific things?
I checked in the resource center and there isn't much on TTS.
I did some testing and I did hear a pause when I use a period. It's not a long pause but it's definitely there. If you want a longer pause, your solution of inserting blank audio is the best way I know of. I know the TTS engine recognizes periods and commas to add pauses in the audio; I'll look for any official documentation and let you know.
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When the your skill returns a response to a request, you provide text that the Alexa service converts to speech. Alexa automatically handles normal punctuation, such as pausing after a period, or speaking a sentence ending in a question mark as a question.
However, sometimes you might want additional control over how Alexa generates the speech from the text in your response. For example, you might want a longer pause within the speech, or you might want Alexa to read a string of digits as a standard telephone number. The Alexa Skills Kit provides this type of control with Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) support.
SSML is a markup language that provides a standard way to mark up text for the generation of synthetic speech. The Alexa Skills Kit supports a subset of the tags defined in the SSML specification. For the list of supported tags, see Supported SSML Tags.
To use SSML, construct your output speech with the supported SSML tags. When you send a response from your service, you must indicate that the speech is in SSML rather than plain text. If you construct the JSON response directly, provide the marked-up text in the outputSpeech property and set the type to SSML instead of PlainText. Use the ssml property instead of text for the marked-up text:
In the JSON output for the SSML, either escape quotation marks within the output, or use an appropriate mix of single and double quotation marks. The following example wraps the response in double quotation marks and uses single quotation marks for attributes.
If you use Alexa Presentation Language (APL) for audio, you can use the Speech component to render SSML. Set the content property to the SSML text, enclosed with tags. Set the contentType property to SSML.
You can combine most supported tags with each other to apply multiple effects on the speech. For instance, this example uses both the and tags. This tells Alexa to speak the entire string in an "excited" voice, and speak the provided number as individual digits:
Applies different speaking styles to the speech. The styles are curated text-to-speech voices that use different variations of intonation, emphasis, pausing, and other techniques to match the speech to the content. For example, the news style makes Alexa's voice sound like what you might expect to hear in a TV or radio newscast, and was built primarily for customers to listen to news articles and other news-based content.
The tag causes Alexa to express emotion when speaking. The emotion effects are useful for stories, games, news updates and other narrative content. For instance, in a game, you might use the "excited" emotion for correct answers and the "disappointed" emotion for incorrect answers.
The tag lets you provide the URL for an MP3 file that the Alexa service can play. Use the tag to embed short, pre-recorded audio within your response. For example, you could include sound effects alongside your text-to-speech responses, or provide a response that uses a voice associated with your brand.
The MP3 files you use to provide audio must be hosted on an endpoint that uses HTTPS. The endpoint must provide an SSL certificate signed by an Amazon-approved certificate authority. Many content hosting services provide this. For example, you could host your files at a service such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) (an Amazon Web Services offering).
You aren't required to authenticate the requests for the audio files. Therefore, you must not include any customer-specific or sensitive information in these audio files. For example, building a custom MP3 file in response to a user's request, and including sensitive information within the audio, isn't allowed.
For optimal performance, Amazon recommends that you host your MP3 files for SSML responses in close proximity to where your skill is hosted. For example, if the Lambda function for your skill is hosted in the US West (Oregon) region, you will get better performance if you upload your MP3s to a US West (Oregon) S3 bucket.
Alexa supports SSML tags that point toward HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) streams, provided that the audio data conforms to the listed specifications. Due to the streaming approach that Alexa uses, there is no benefit to using HLS streams instead of statically served MP3 files. Furthermore, unlike with statically served MP3 files, an SSML response that contains an HLS stream that violates the 240-second duration limit fails silently. This silent failure means that the playback stops before the limit is hit, no error message is generated on the customer device, and the skill doesn't receive an error request. If your skill uses SSML responses that contain HLS streams, make sure that you take particular care to test the audio returned in its responses.
Use to specify the language model and rules to speak the tagged content as if it were written in the language specified by the xml:lang attribute. Words and phrases in other languages usually sound better when enclosed with the tag. This is useful for short phrases in other languages, such as the names of restaurants or shops.
Alexa adapts the pronunciation to use the sounds available in the original language of the skill, so it might not sound exactly like a native speaker. To achieve a more natural voice than what you get with the tag alone, use the tag and the tag together. With the , you can select a voice customized for a specific language. Make sure that the language of the tagged text matches the attribute, and that the is specific to the language of the text.
With the tag, Alexa uses French pronunciation with sounds available in English for a "French-like" pronunciation. A perfect French pronunciation would include an uvular trill (/R/) in the word "adore." The French-like English pronunciation achieved with the tag uses the corresponding /r/ sound instead.
These symbols provide full coverage for the sounds of Arabic (SA). Other languages require the use of symbols not included in this list, which are not supported. Using symbols not included in this list for Arabic (SA) skills is discouraged, as it may result in suboptimal speech synthesis.
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