Fine-tune Speech Synthesis Using Text-to-Speech Markup

Feature Summary

The goal of text-to-speech markup is to enhance the quality of the text-to-speech playback. With Chant VoiceMarkupKit, you can:

• Generate markup language in Nuance L&H Native Control Sequence, Microsoft SAPI 4 control tags, Microsoft SAPI 5 XML, and W3C SSML (Cepstral) syntax.
• Generate pronunciation phonemes for Cepstral, Microsoft SAPI 4, Microsoft SAPI 5, Nuance RealSpeak Solo, and Nuance Vocalizer synthesizers.
• Dynamically switch among speech APIs and syntax formats.

Chant VoiceMarkupKit is comprised of application ready software components that handle the complexities of generating text-to-speech markup for various markup syntax. This enables you to tailor speech synthesis to produce sounds in familiar dialects, speaking patterns, and accents of your end users. You can adjust TTS markup as needed for the synthesizer to enhance the playback quality when synthesizing.

Synthesizers (i.e., speech APIs) support unique markup syntax. VoiceMarkupKit supports the following synthesizers and their markup syntax:

By generating TTS markup at runtime, your application can maximize the quality of TTS playback and offer your end users the flexibility of using various synthesizers with your application.

Within Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

• Create and edit documents with TTS markup
• Generate TTS markup
• Generate word pronunciation phonemes
• Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit)
• Playback text with TTS markup (requires SpeechKit)

Learn more about Chant VoiceMarkupKit »

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