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Speech synthesis

You can synthesise speech to your interlocutor before and during an active call or conference.

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Speech synthesis usage

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To synthesize speech during an incoming call, first answer a call. You can use the startEarlyMedia method to broadcast speech before the call is answered to create a greeting or a voicemail prompt.

To synthesize speech, use the createTTSPlayer() method in your scenario. Pass the text string to synthesize in the first parameter and options in the second parameter. See the code example below to understand how it works:

Synthesize speech

Synthesize speech

Configuring the voice

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You can choose the voice for speech synthesis from one of these lists: VoiceList.Amazon, VoiceList.Google, VoiceList.Tinkoff, VoiceList.Yandex. The default voice is VoiceList.Amazon.en_US_Joanna.

If you have a custom Yandex engine voice, please contact support to activate this feature for your account, then specify the voice folder ID to the yandexCustomModelName property.

You can also configure other speech synthesis options, such as pitch, rate and volume. To specify them, list them in the ttsOptions parameter of the createTTSPlayer() method. See the code example below:

Configure the voice options

Configure the voice options

The options have the following values:

  • pitch (voice pitch) with the following acceptable ranges: 1) the numbers followed by "Hz" from 0.5Hz to 2Hz 2) x-low, low, medium, high, x-high, default

  • rate (speech speed) with the following possible values: x-slow, slow, medium, fast, x-fast, default

  • volume (speech volume) with the possible values: silent, x-soft, soft, medium, loud, x-loud, default

If you want to set them for the whole text, you do not have to use the speak tag. If you want to use specific attributes for a part of the text, specify the speak tag manually.

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The supported tag list depend on the language provider. You can find these lists on their official websites. If you use a not supported tag, the PlaybackFinished event is triggered with the 400 error.

For example, if we choose Amazon, we have to use the prosody tag to control volume, rate, or pitch of the selected text fragment. Here is how we make this fragment sound higher:

Amazon's prosody tag

Amazon's prosody tag

Here's another example of a specific Amazon's tag say-as:

Amazon's say-as tag

Amazon's say-as tag

Passing parameters directly to the provider

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There are two ways of passing speech synthesis parameters to your provider. You can fill the ttsOptions parameters on Voximplant side, as it is explained in this article, so the platform converts them to the provider's format and sends them to your provider. Alternatively, you can provide the parameters directly to the provider in the request parameter.

About the formats

You need to specify the parameters in the specific format that your provider accepts. Different providers use different formats. Refer to your provider's API reference to learn about the formats.

To pass the parameters directly, choose the provider is the language parameter of the createTTSPlayer, method and pass the request parameter using the provider's format. Here is the full scenario example on how to use the request parameter with Google:

Request parameter for Google TTS

Request parameter for Google TTS

Here are examples of the request parameter for most common providers:

Request parameter examples

Request parameter examples