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Drawing the Melody: SSML's Hidden Power
Raw text to speech sounds good. SSML makes it sound *right*. In this episode, we explore Speech Synthesis Markup Language — the XML-based standard that lets developers control prosody, emotion, and pacing in neural TTS. We break down the prosody tag's contour feature (think: drawing the melody of a sentence), ElevenLabs' custom emotion tag (whisper, excited, sad — applied to any voice), and the trap of over-tagging. With ElevenLabs supporting ~28 tags and emerging as the standard's gravitational center, understanding SSML is becoming essential for anyone building voice applications…
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