Speech Synthesis Markup Language: An Introduction (O'Reilly)

[Posted October 27, 2004 by cook]

Peter Mikhalenko introduces SSML, the Speech Synthesis Markup Language, in an O'Reilly article. "Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification (SSML 1.0), introduced in September 2004, is one of the standards enabling access to the Web using spoken interaction. It's designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in web and other applications. The essential role of SSML is to provide authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc., across different synthesis-capable platforms."

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