Small pause for every sentence

Question

I am looking for a way to add a small pause for each sentence which longer than usual. How can I set it in speech SDK?

Answer 1

Hello @Seyed Abudula

Thanks for reaching out to us, you can use SSML to define a paragraph, a sentence, a break or a pause, or silence.

The supported values for attributes of the break element were described previously. The following three ways all add 750 ms breaks.

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US">
    <voice name="en-US-JennyNeural">
        Welcome <break /> to text to speech.
        Welcome <break strength="medium" /> to text to speech.
        Welcome <break time="750ms" /> to text to speech.
    </voice>
</speak>

The absolute duration of a pause in seconds (such as 2s) or milliseconds (such as 500ms). Valid values range from 0 to 5000 milliseconds. If you set a value greater than the supported maximum, the service will use 5000ms. If the time attribute is set, the strength attribute is ignored.

I hope this helps.

Reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-markup-structure#add-a-break

Regards,

Yutong

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