Controlling delays in google TTS speech...

[eroge...@gmail.com]

Hello,

  I am trying to control speech flow with punctuation and it doesn't seem to be analyzed as some of the google TTS for andriod documents might lead one to believe.  I am using the english (united states) for the language selection. 

I am trying to add simple delays between words.  There isn't currently any speed control settings in the speech block, so to help keep things not seem so ran together I would like to be able to put delays between words, etc.

Can anyone shed any light on a solution or work around?

Thanks!

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

It looks like the TTS engine do support x-SAMPA, maybe that can be used to prolong punctuations.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3647869/445360

[eroge...@gmail.com]

So here are the exact details of what I was doing to get the delay / pause I was looking for:

assign a word to a Var (variable set block):  

Variable field: Var1

Value = "test <break time=\"3s\"/> delay"

Speak block

Message field:  <speak xml:lang="en-US"> {Var1} </speak>

The result was that there was a 3 second delay between the words "test" and "delay"

The source code for this tag (and all tags) is found here:  https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/

I found that if I didn't include the "<speak xml:lang="en-US">" and the "</speak>" in the speak block, the "<break time=\"3s\"/>" was read literally instead of interpreted as control language.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Cool. Thanks for submitting your findings.