Re: [Emacspeak] Experimenting with multiple voices for mac/windows

[Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Windows SSML support is mostly a lie. 

It does technically parse it completely, supporting 100% of the 
defined spec, the problem is after parsing they throw the 
majority of it away.  

Pitch and Contour are examples of stuff that are not implemented 
on almost all voices. You in theory can get them working with the
small subset of labeled "neutral" or "natural" voices, which are 
not installed by default. Last doc I could find out of the many, 
many attributes and features of SSML, the internal class implements 
6 of them. 

I didn't want to make installing those voices a requirement, all
the framing for pitch is already in and was even being pushed 
into the SSML prior to 1.3.  

I guess I can put it back and just alert the user to install one 
of the 3 US voices that support it.  "Guy" for US, "Ryan" for UK, 
and "Prashant" for India. 

> On Apr 14, 2024, at 17:38, Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Why do you say that Windows has no pitch support? You should be able to send pitch offset in SSML.

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Robert "robertmeta" Melton
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