SSML Support in TTS (Text to Speech)

exotel now supports all the ssml tags that are supported by google tts any applet that offers a text to speech service, like the greeting applet, ivr applet, gather applet , etc now supports ssml tags campaign users can also now use this feature to power their static/dynamic campaigns! pre requisites raise a request to hello\@exotel com/ your account manager to enable language support for tts ensure that “tamil” is selected as the language when using ssml tags (please use the \<voice language> or \<voice name> ssml tag to change the language to the desired one) note the special character & is not supported by google tts ensure ascii quotes \[ " or ' ] are used wherever necessary in the ssml tags and not curly quotes \[ “ or ’ ] customers can now use the whole range of customizations offered by google tts by wrapping their text around the relevant ssml tags and ensuring an elevated user experience is delivered to their end customers to showcase some of the capabilities that are now available, please refer to the following examples options to change language, gender and accents with the “voice name” ssml tag, customers can choose from 427+ different options that are offered via the google tts service this includes 49 different languages from across the globe this also includes all the standard and premium voices as well standard, wavenet, neural2, studio please note that the pricing for voices apart from standard are significantly different sample ssml wrapped text to use this feature \<speak>\<voice name="en in wavenet d">your text\</voice>\</speak> \<speak>\<voice language="en in">your text\</voice>\</speak> please refer to the list of all the voice names and voice languages that are available here https //cloud google com/text to speech/docs/voices options to change the speed at which the text is read out there are multiple ways of reducing the speed/rate at which your text is read out to your end customers pfb a samples to achieve the same \<speak>\<prosody rate ="90%">your text\</prosody>\</speak> to learn more about the prosody element, see the w3 specification you can also refer to this section of the google tts documentation to understand the prosody element options to add a break of a few seconds between sentences \<speak>your text\<break time="2s"/>your text here as well \</speak>