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Modifying speech with SSML

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Modifying speech with SSML

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- [Instructor] Amazon has put a ton of work into making Alexa's speech synthesis as intelligent and lifelike as possible. However, there are times when you, as the developer, need to give the speech processor some hints on how to say things. Perhaps you want to emphasize a word as you might with bold or italic text in a document. Or maybe you need to specify a pronunciation. That's where SSML comes in. Speech Synthesis Markup Language, or SSML, is a set of tags you can embed in your speech output that changes the way the words will be spoken. If you're familiar with HTML, it's actually rather similar. If we Google SSML, you'll find that the first hit is related to Alexa. Click on it and you can see some of the options. Here's an example. You can see it looks very HTML-like. Here's a word spelled out. Say as, interpret as, spell out hello. If we want to try this, we can head over to the Test tab and go to the Voice…

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