[mary-users] Does Mary TTS conform to SSML tags?

[Marc Schroeder]

its true: only the mbrola voices support prosody modification. prosody 
contour is currently not implemented.

Best,
Marc

Steve Mack schrieb:
> Thanks for the note Nikolay.  But I meant about every prosody setting like
> dictation speed.
> 
> I tried making prosody adjustments to every XML format option on the Mary
> interface and whether it was cadence, emphasis, etc., none worked.
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nickolay V. Shmyrev [mailto:nshmyrev at yandex.ru] 
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:07 AM
> To: Steve Mack
> Cc: 'Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer'; mary-users at dfki.de
> Subject: Re: [mary-users] Does Mary TTS conform to SSML tags?
> 
> В Вск, 22/02/2009 в 07:29 -0500, Steve Mack пишет:
>> Brigitte,
>>
>> Mary ignores prosody tags.  I have brought this issue up twice before 
>> in this forum, but got no reply from Marc or anyone else.
>>
> 
> Well, if you are talking about unit selection voices, it's not easy to
> modify the pitch for them. For HMM-based synthesis it's also not that
> straightforward.
> 
> So basically it requires work.
> 
> 
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