This guide provides information about using Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) to incorporate IBM Text-to-Speech technology into applications.
This guide describes the programming interfaces available for developers to take advantage of these features within their applications.
This guide is also available in Portable Document Format (PDF). To read it, you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Using IBM Text-to-Speech Technology and Speech Synthesis Markup Language
This guide can help if you are a software developer interested in writing applications that use IBM Text-to-Speech technology. This document describes the use of IBM Text-to-Speech technology for beginning to advanced software engineers.
This guide presents the following main topics.
This topic describes the use of SSML to control speech synthesis and text processing parameters.
This topic describes the use of special phonetic symbols to customize pronunciations in IBM Text-to-Speech.
The following typographical conventions are used throughout this document to facilitate reading and comprehension. They are outlined in the following list.