Last reviewed: 3/23/2024 10:46:12 AM
VoiceMarkupKit Features
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 Acapela TTS, CereProc CereVoice, Microsoft Azure Speech SSML, Microsoft SAPI 5 XML, and W3C SSML syntax; and
- Dynamically switch among speech APIs and syntax formats.
Chant VoiceMarkupKit handles the complexities of generating text-to-speech markup for various markup syntax. Applications can tailor speech synthesis to produce sounds in familiar dialects, speaking patterns, and accents of end users. Applications can adjust TTS markup as needed for the synthesizer to enhance the playback quality when synthesizing.
Synthesizers (i.e. speech APIs) interpret different markup syntax. VoiceMarkupKit supports the following markup syntax:
Speech API | Grammar Syntax |
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Acapela TTS | AcaTTS Tags |
Cepstral Swift | W3C SSML |
CereProc CereVoice | W3C SSML, CereVoice Tagset |
Microsoft Azure Speech | Azure Speech SSML |
Microsoft SAPI 5 | SAPI 5 XML Grammar W3C SRGS XML |
Microsoft Speech Platform | W3C SRGS XML |
Microsoft .NET System.Speech | W3C SRGS XML |
Microsoft .NET Microsoft.Speech | W3C SRGS XML |
Microsoft WindowsMedia (UWP and WinRT) | W3C SRGS XML |
Within Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:
- Create and edit documents with TTS markup;
- Generate TTS markup;
- Generate word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit);
- Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit); and
- Playback text with TTS markup (requires SpeechKit).


