SSML elements and attributes

Notes about SSML elements and attributes in Canadian French are included here.

Table 1. Limitations for Canadian French SSML elements
Element Implementation details
<phoneme> The IPA alphabet is not supported. The IBM alphabet is supported.

The IBM alphabet used in SSML refers to the phonology used by IBM TTS. The following example shows the US English phonetic pronunciation of “tomato” using the IBM TTS phonetic alphabet:

<phoneme alphabet="ibm" ph=".0tx.1me.0Fo"> tomato </phoneme>

For more information on IBM SPRs, see the IBM Text-To-Speech SSML Programming Guide.

<prosody> The pitch, range and rate attributes are not supported.
<say-as> The interpret-as attribute is only supported with the value "vxml:digits". The digits and lettersattributes are also supported