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Doitsu · 09-13-2015, 09:56 AM

I occasionally use the iOS TTS voices to listen to English ebooks, and some pronunciations are driving me mad. For example, one of the English voices always reads Mr. as ['em 'ɑ(r)] instead of ['mɪstə(r)] and No. as [nʌmbə(r)] instead of ['nəʊ/'noʊ].

SSML, which is included in the ePub3 standard, would be ideal for handling these issues, but there doesn't seem to be a single app that actually supports it.

Does anybody know an iOS/Android app that supports SSML/PLS/CSS3 Speech or at least allows users to add custom dictionaries that override default pronunciations?

09-13-2015, 09:56 AM	#1
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,737 Karma: 24031401 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	App with Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) support? I occasionally use the iOS TTS voices to listen to English ebooks, and some pronunciations are driving me mad. For example, one of the English voices always reads Mr. as ['em 'ɑ(r)] instead of ['mɪstə(r)] and No. as [nʌmbə(r)] instead of ['nəʊ/'noʊ]. SSML, which is included in the ePub3 standard, would be ideal for handling these issues, but there doesn't seem to be a single app that actually supports it. Does anybody know an iOS/Android app that supports SSML/PLS/CSS3 Speech or at least allows users to add custom dictionaries that override default pronunciations?