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Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is an XML-based markup language that can be used to fine-tune the output of text-to-speech systems. It allows developers to specify various attributes of the generated speech, such as pitch, pronunciation, speaking rate, volume, and more. This can be useful for creating more natural-sounding and expressive speech output, and for customizing the speech to fit the needs of the application. SSML is supported by many text-to-speech systems, and can be used to enhance the quality and flexibility of the generated speech.
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and Behavior Markup Language (BML) can be used together to create virtual humans that can communicate with users in a natural and expressive way. By using SSML to control the production of spoken language and BML to control the behavior of the virtual human, developers can create virtual agents that can engage users in meaningful conversations and interactions.
For example, a developer could use SSML to specify the pronunciation, intonation, and emphasis of the virtual human’s speech, while using BML to specify the virtual human’s gestures, facial expressions, and other nonverbal behaviors. By combining these two languages, developers can create virtual humans that can communicate with users in a natural and expressive way, making it easier for users to understand and engage with the virtual human.
- Behavior Markup Language (BML) is a specification for describing the behavior of virtual characters or agents in virtual environments. It allows developers to specify a character’s actions, gestures, facial expressions, and other aspects of their behavior. BML is often used in combination with other technologies, such as animation tools or real-time rendering engines, to bring virtual characters to life in virtual environments.
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P Baggia – Human 4.0-From Biology to Cybernetic, 2020 – books.google.com
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Emotional speech from machine
B Amatya – 2020 – jyx.jyu.fi
… Page 4. GLOSSARY SSML Speech Synthesis Markup Language TTS Text to Speech IBM International Business Machines … Page 20. 12 2.3 SPEECH SYNTHESIS MARKUP LANGUAGE (SSML) Speech Synthesis Mark-up Language (SSML) is an XML-based mark-up …
Caller Acoustic Push To Answers
A Agnihotri, N Thangaraju, P Suyambu – 2020 – tdcommons.org
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RM Rodriques – ijarsct.co.in
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H El-bakry, PJ Farrugia – academia.edu
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Teach-Me DNA: an Interactive Course Using Voice Output in an Augmented Reality System
M Kenoui, MA Mehdi – 2020 1st International Conference on …, 2020 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… to obtain an even more interactive system. We also employ Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) to control some features of the natural-sounding speech thus produced. Moreover, we developed Teach-Me DNA, an …
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I Nandutu, E Mwebaze – arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05447, 2020 – arxiv.org
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L Bors, A Samajdwer, M van Oosterhout – Oracle Digital Assistant, 2020 – Springer
… Note. Extended documentation of the ssml-builder node package can be found at www.npmjs.com/package/ssml-builder. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML). Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is an XML-based markup language …
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JO Wülfing, CT Dang, E André – International Conference on Text, Speech …, 2020 – Springer
… All three synthesisers have capabilities to manipulate prosodic features and make use of a markup language that more or less follows the industry standard SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) v1.1 4 . eSpeak uses SSML, however, with fewer options to manipulate …
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JH Park, JW Lee, JS Um, J Yook, K Kim… – The Journal of …, 2021 – Springer
… Contents MathML that can express meanings of mathematical functions; second, transform Contents MathML formula contents to math-to-speech texts using XSLT; and third, design a system that converts the transformed text into Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) [18 …
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VA Shekhovtsov – Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2020 …, 2020 – Springer
… https://www. adoxx. org 2. ADOxx R ALL Java API. https://www. adoxx. org/live/adoxx-java 3. Baggia, P., et al.: Speech synthesis markup language (SSML) version 1.1 (2010) 4. Baniassad, E., Clements, PC, et al.: Discovering early aspects. IEEE Softw …
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… Multi-Modal Annotation Language (EMMA) [14] – a markup language for annotating the user input, (2) Virtual Human Markup Language (VHML) [17] – a markup language for human-computer interaction scenarios, and (3) Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) [3] – an …
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JI Choi, E Agichtein – Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… based assistants. In this paper, we inves- tigate one natural approach to handle “boring” responses, which is to modulate response prosody via commonly available Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) [25]. For our …
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KM Scott, S Ashby, R Cibin – Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… to-Speech Web Service. The tool supports use of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), for fine control of features such as the utterance rate and pause durations of the speech output. The second application – an …
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J Arya – researchgate.net
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M Manca, P Parvin, F Paternò, C Santoro – Proceedings of the 6th EAI …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… This file will then be played through the vocal assistant, by exploiting SSML language (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) tags6. In this solu- tion, we detect the language used in the alarm/reminder action by exploiting the Google Cloud Translation API7. If the language is …
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T Nekvinda – 2020 – dspace.cuni.cz
Page 1. MASTER THESIS Bc. Tomáš Nekvinda Multilingual speech synthesis Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Supervisor of the master thesis: Mgr. et Mgr. Ond?ej Dušek, Ph.D. Study programme: Computer Science Study branch: Artificial Intelligence Prague 2020 …
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MR Elkobaisi, F Al Machot – Journal of Ambient Intelligence and …, 2021 – Springer
… Multimedia information. (SSML) Speech Synthesis Markup Language (Baggia and Bagshaw 2010) It is an XML-based markup language for supporting the creation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications. The essential …
Speech Services
A Moniz, M Gordon, I Bergum, M Chang… – … Azure Cognitive Services, 2021 – Springer
… The standard voices and Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) can make the artificial voice sound more natural and clearer to your end users. The user can also adjust its pitch and volume, add pauses, improve its pronunciation, and modify its speaking speed …
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KS Park, JL Etnier – Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2021 – Elsevier
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E Lee, G Vesonder, E Wendel – 2020 11th IEEE Annual …, 2020 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
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… Simple Response: Simple responses take the form of a chat bubble visually and use Text to Speech (TTS) or Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) for sound … We can use SSML for this, which stands for Speech Synthesis Markup Language …
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S Cinieri, B Kapralos, A Uribe-Quevedo… – 2020 IEEE 8th …, 2020 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
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E Marvin – … International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in …, 2020 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
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H Namgung, JS Jeong, K Lee… – IOP Conference Series …, 2020 – iopscience.iop.org
… over the VoIP. The TTS controller can receive the voice message composition from the MCS, requesting the TTS server by sending the message converted into the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) format. Then the …
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K Liang, A Chau, Y Li, X Lu, D Yu, M Zhou… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 – arxiv.org
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L Dakovski – e-university.tu-sofia.bg
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J Cambre, C Kulkarni – Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… Similarly, the speech output from voice interfaces is also largely “flat” or context-agnostic; to better match the intended meaning or inflection of a phrase, voice de- signers currently need to manually annotate speech content using Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) …
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BD Kuzmin – is.muni.cz
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… Page 3. vert the raw text to speech (TTS). Next, we apply Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tags to the audio to change the prosody of the produced speech. We also add ambient noise 2 to the speech to make the data align with real-life data …
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W Shih – Library Technology Reports, 2020 – journals.ala.org
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MF Lie, P Kvalvik – International Conference on Human Interaction and …, 2021 – Springer
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D Aneja, R Hoegen, D McDuff… – Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 – dl.acm.org
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… Rhythm to Voice Shimon’s voice is generated by modifying the output of Google’s text-to-speech system. Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) provides options for changing vocal prosody in text-to-speech systems. We …
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LC Klopfenstein, M Di Lorenzi – International Workshop on Chatbot …, 2020 – Springer
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T Jokiniemi – 2021 – osuva.uwasa.fi
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O Ollikainen – 2020 – aaltodoc.aalto.fi
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N Girija, T Bhuvaneswari – Artificial Intelligence (AI): Recent …, 2021 – books.google.com
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J Vilk, NT Fitter – Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE international …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… Amazon Polly’s Joey voice (with default settings) delivers most lines with natural pacing. When it does not, we use Speech Synthesis Markup Language [1] to customize how Joey speaks a line to match the intended delivery …
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L Boonstra – The Definitive Guide to Conversational AI with …, 2021 – Springer
… TTS converts text or Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) input into audio data like MP3 or LINEAR16 (the encoding used in WAV files). WaveNet. In the past, we had standard Machine Learning models for generating voices. They sounded very robotic …
An empirical study of the effect of acoustic-prosodic entrainment on the perceived trustworthiness of conversational avatars
RH Gálvez, A Gravano, Š Be?uš, R Levitan… – Speech …, 2020 – Elsevier
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Audrey: A personalized open-domain conversational bot
CH Hong, Y Liang, SS Roy, A Jain, V Agarwal… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 – arxiv.org
Page 1. Audrey: A Personalized Open-Domain Conversational Bot Chung Hoon Hong2, Yuan Liang2, Sagnik Sinha Roy1, Arushi Jain1, Vihang Agarwal3 Ryan Draves3, Zhizhuo Zhou3, William Chen3, Yujian Liu3, Martha …
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Y Kim, M Reza, J McGrenere, D Yoon – … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 – dl.acm.org
… In order to help designers modify the synthesized voice in more efective and efcient ways, tech giants such as Amazon and IBM have developed their own high-level SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) tags that comprise the efects from multiple primitive standard …
A Practical Experience on the Amazon Alexa Integration in Smart Offices
R Bogdan, A Tatu, MM Crisan-Vida, M Popa… – Sensors, 2021 – mdpi.com
Smart offices are dynamically evolving spaces meant to enhance employees’ efficiency, but also to create a healthy and proactive working environment. In a competitive business world, the challenge of providing a balance between the efficiency and wellbeing of employees may …
Neural Models for Integrating Prosody in Spoken Language Understanding
T Tran – 2020 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. c Copyright 2020 Trang Tran Page 2. Neural Models for Integrating Prosody in Spoken Language Understanding Trang Tran A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington 2020 …
Manipulating and Evaluating Levels of Personality Perceptions of Voice Assistants through Enactment-Based Dialogue Design
ST Völkel, S Meindl, H Hussmann – CUI 2021-3rd Conference on …, 2021 – dl.acm.org
… assistant. To underline the different personality levels, we adjusted the respective voice assis- tant’s para-linguistic features, that is pitch, speech rate, and volume, by changing the default speech synthesis markup language (SSML) …
Toward fairness in AI for people with disabilities SBG@ a research roadmap
A Guo, E Kamar, JW Vaughan, H Wallach… – ACM SIGACCESS …, 2020 – dl.acm.org
… We use the term “speech systems” to refer to Al systems that recognize the content (ie, words) and/or properties (ie, prosody, speaker demographics) of speech, or that generate speech from symbolic inputs such as text, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), or other …
Love dolls and sex robots in unproven and unexplored fields of application
O Bendel – Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 2021 – degruyter.com
… their own experience and experiments. Bendel has made proposals for the adaptation of synthetic voices using Speech Synthesis Markup Language, which are still waiting to be implemented [38]. Artists and designers may …
Voice as a Contemporary Frontier of Interaction Design
A Schmitt, N Zierau, A Janson… – … on Information Systems …, 2021 – alexandria.unisg.ch
… certain tasks and contexts. Platforms offer several synthesized text-to-speech (TTS) voice libraries and Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) for further personalization (Branham & Roy, 2019). Information and content …
Chatbot for food preferences modelling and recipe recommendation
ÁMFM Samagaio – 2020 – repositorio-aberto.up.pt
Page 1. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Chatbot for food preferences modelling and recipe recommendation Álvaro Miguel Figueira Mendes Samagaio Dissertation Mestrado Integrado em Bioengenharia – Engenharia Biomédica …
5 Advertisers Get Ready
J Turow – The Voice Catchers, 2021 – degruyter.com
… of speech sounds.” Polly offers more than fifty voices to American developers, and along with it they can use, also free, Polly’s speech-synthesis markup language. That allows a developer to adjust the chosen voice to match the meaning of an utterance …
Giving Smart Agents a Voice: How a Smart Agent’s Voice Influences Its Relationships with Consumers
Y Han – 2020 – vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
Page 1. Giving Smart Agents a Voice: How a Smart Agent’s Voice Influences Its Relationships with Consumers Yegyu Han Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of …
Building A User-Centric and Content-Driven Socialbot
H Fang – arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.02623, 2020 – arxiv.org
Page 1. ©Copyright 2019 Hao Fang arXiv:2005.02623v1 [cs.CL] 6 May 2020 Page 2. Building A User-Centric and Content-Driven Socialbot Hao Fang A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy …
Conveying Reassurance with Confidence and Confirmation
A Thymé-Gobbel, C Jankowski – Mastering Voice Interfaces, 2021 – Springer
… For audio output, Actions on Google supports Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), which is useful for non-verbal audio (NVA) and for providing detailed output pronunciation instructions, how to say a name, where to pause, and for how long. Ending the conversation …
Development and implementation of an automotive virtual assistant
L LAVAGNO, A CELESTINO – webthesis.biblio.polito.it
Page 1. POLITECNICO DI TORINO Master’s Degree in Mechatronic Engineering Master’s Degree Thesis Development and implementation of an automotive virtual assistant Supervisor Prof. Luciano LAVAGNO Candidate Andrea CELESTINO Academic Year 2019-2020 Page 2 …
Creating Secure Personalized Experiences
A Thymé-Gobbel, C Jankowski – Mastering Voice Interfaces, 2021 – Springer
This chapter builds on what you learned about context in Chapter 14as you now explore creating individualized voice interfaces that users will trust. Even while writing this chapter, there were…
Design, Development, and Evaluation of Research Tools for Evidence-based Learning: a Digital Game-based Spelling Training for German Primary School …
H Holz – 2020 – bibliographie.uni-tuebingen.de
Page 1. Design, Development, and Evaluation of Research Tools for Evidence-Based Learning: A Digital Game-Based Spelling Training for German Primary School Children Dissertation der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät …
Real-Time Emotion-Sensitive User Interfaces
S Zepf – 2021 – oparu.uni-ulm.de
Page 1. Universität Ulm | 89081 Ulm | Germany Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology Institute of Communications Engineering Real-Time Emotion-Sensitive User Interfaces A thesis submitted to attain the degree of Dr. rer. nat …
Designing and Evaluating Young Children’s Interaction During an Alexa Trivia Game
Y Du – 2020 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Designing and Evaluating Young Children’s Interaction During an Alexa Trivia Game DISSERTATION submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Informatics by Yao Du …
Preservice Teachers? Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Tutors for Learning
F Incerti – 2020 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Tutors for Learning A dissertation presented to the faculty of The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Federica Incerti …
Face-to-face collaboration technology for children
K Diederich – 2020 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. FACE-TO-FACE COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY FOR CHILDREN by Kyle Diederich A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa August 2020 …
Agents presenting themselves as Strangers duringPrivacy Permission Requests: Effects on Disclosureand Privacy Awareness of Children
NA Zwart – 2021 – essay.utwente.nl
Page 1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Agents presenting themselves as Strangers during Privacy Permission Requests: Effects on Disclosure and Privacy Awareness of Children Thesis MSc Interaction Technology Author: Nynke Zwart …