This article provides a worksheet with twelve Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) “formulas” for genderless (gender-neutral) synthetic voices. The first four can be used directly in Alexa skills for Text-to-Speech (TTS) using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and the various skill building tools, while the other eight can be used to make audio recordings using… Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development: SSML Copy and Paste Worksheet 9: Twelve Genderless Polly Voices
Month: April 2019
Amazon Alexa Skills Development Voiceflow Tutorial: How to Efficiently Manage Character Voices. Part 2: User Preferences
In this tutorial we continue the “managing voices” series for Amazon Alexa Skill developers using Voiceflow. In Part 1, we covered how to use variables to more efficiently manage voice configurations. We used variables to manage “voice formulas” consisting of SSML Alexa Polly synthetic voice and prosody tags, and reusing those variables throughout a skill. … Continue reading Amazon Alexa Skills Development Voiceflow Tutorial: How to Efficiently Manage Character Voices. Part 2: User Preferences