About using SSML with the Text To Speech service

Question

I want to use Azure's TTS API. I want to use SSML for the text type, and I want to get gender/age group voices for the en-US language. I found that many voice profiles already exist for gender, but there are no supported voices for age groups (adult, senior, child). However, I was expecting to be able to create voices for age groups using the role attribute in SSML, but there seems to be a limit to the languages supported. Can you please provide a list of languages for which the role attribute can be used? Also, I would appreciate a guide for supporting age groups in en-US. If I need to adjust the properties of the voices (pitch, rate, etc.), please give me the values for the profiles for the 6 voices below.

• Male
  • Adult
  • Senior(Older)
  • Child
• Female
  • Adult
  • Senior(Older)
  • Child

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hello,

you can look up the complete list from here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/language-support?tabs=tts#voice-styles-and-roles.

If you want to create a list automatically, please look here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/rest-text-to-speech?tabs=streaming#get-a-list-of-voices

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