Pause text-to-speech

ActivePresenter Support Questions
1

Is there a control sequence that I could insert into the text that would cause the audio to pause?

2

Hi,

ActivePresenter supports SSML 1.0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_Synthesis_Markup_Language), so you can use it for advanced control of the voice.

For pausing, you can use the break element:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-speech-synthesis-20040907/#edef_break

Example:

<speak version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis
                   http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/synthesis.xsd"
         xml:lang="en-US">
  Take a deep breath <break/>
  then continue. 
  Press 1 or wait for the tone. <break time="5s"/>
  I didn't hear you! <break strength="weak"/> Please repeat.
</speak>

Please note that if you use SSML then you need to enter the full <speak> root tag into the Text field when generating audio.

Regards,