How to adjust Text-to-Voice messages
You can change the way your Voice messages sound by adding pauses or adjusting the speech rate, pitch and volume.
Add a pause or break
You can use a comma or full stop as a small pause.
For example: "Please enter your activation code 9, 0, 9, 0, in the next 20 minutes."
If you’re able to do some basic coding, you can use the break tag.
Here's an example:
<speak>. For example: <break time='2s' />test message.</speak>
Change read-out rate
You’ll need to do some basic coding, wrap the body text in the prosody tag. The prosody tag allows you to set the pitch, rate and volume of the text.
The
volumeattribute can be set to the following values: default, silent, x-soft, soft, medium, loud and x-loud.The
rateattribute changes the speed of speech. Acceptable values include: x-slow, slow, medium, fast and x-fast.The
pitchattribute changes the pitch of the voice. You can specify this using either predefined value labels or numerically. The value labels are: default, x-low, low, medium, high and x-high. The format for specifying a numerical pitch change is: +n% and -n%.
Here's an example:
I am <prosody volume='loud'>loud and proud</prosody>, <prosody rate='fast'>quick as a cricket</prosody> and can <prosody pitch='x-low'>change my pitch</prosody>.