SSML doesn't work (for me?)

[pfmd86]

Hi,

I might do it wrong, but I try to use SSML to add breaks to my text. So I activated the checkbox SSML and wrapped everything in the tag. Then I added the to my transcript. It gets totally ignored. Am I missing anything here?

[fishscene]

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml

I don't know that you did anything "wrong", but there seems to be some quirks with the implementation of SSML and you may have run in to one.

I've found it works if you place a period immediately before <break time="500ms"/>

Formatting it like this works perfectly:

<speak>
  Other pre-set filters allow changing the job list view to "today", "current job".
  <break time="500ms"/> "last four days", "next 7 days pending", and "all"
</speak>

Hope this helps!