Special characters/modifiers for TTS?

[Molisk Scout]

Hello!

So I'm looking to spice up IVONA Ivy a little more.

I found some random stuff about making TTS sing and-what-not, but mostly different versions.

Related to sapi5 : Speech API 5.3 and IVONA

But none of this seem to work.

Any ideas?

[Trevor Woodcook]

I think most of the tricks for Ivona only work with the reader they sell too. Not sure though. I found accent markers that would allow you to change the emphasis on a word but they don't work in the TTS option of VA commands.

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[Gary]

At some point I would like to look at SSML and see if there's anything that can be done in VA.

Gary

[Raron]

Some TTS voices have a different emphasis depending on punctuation.

For example, the voice "en-US, Helen" sounds pretty good regarding this. I'm only hearing a difference between having no punctuation marks after a word, or a period or exclamation mark (I think they sound alike), or a question mark. Also a comma makes it sound a bit different I think, maybe.

But not all voices do this (like Microsoft Anna, it seems). Probably dependent of the default language of the voice too.

Btw, if you got Windows 7 or 8, 64-bit, this post describes how you may install additional voices for free (including the "en-US, Helen" voice).