eSpeak - Introduction

[Michael Whapples]

As far as speech mark-up languages go, ssml seems to be the one that is 
being currently used. Speech-dispatcher documentation mentions it in the 
section about making output modules. I think if you were to make use of ssml 
from speech-dispatcher, it would need to come from a specific module, the 
documentation seems to say this, and it seems to indicate that there is a 
file with the basic parts of the module written, so that a developer will 
only have to add synth specific parts. More information about 
speech-dispatcher output modules for developers is in the speech-dispatcher 
documentation chapter 4.2 and the use of the generic module configuration 
file is explained in chapter 2.

If you would like to see some examples of what a mark-up language can do 
with speech, I could send you a sample file from the ETI eloquence synth I 
have in windows, and the sound it produces (as mp3. ogg vorbis, etc). Before 
anyone says eloquence does not use ssml, it might not, but it will give an 
idea of what mark-up can do.

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Michael whapples