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SSML

In Arabic: لغة SSML

Text to speech and voice AI

Speech Synthesis Markup Language, an XML-based W3C standard for controlling synthetic speech: pauses, emphasis, rate, pitch and how numbers or dates are read. Which tags work depends on the engine.

Example: <break time="500ms"/> inserts a half-second pause between two sentences of a phone prompt.
All terms
  • Text to speech and voice AIتحويل النص إلى صوت (TTS)

    Text to speech (TTS)

    Technology that reads written text aloud in a synthetic human voice and outputs an audio file. For Arabic, quality depends on how well the engine handles missing diacritics, numbers and the dialect you want.

  • Text to speech and voice AIتحويل النص إلى صوت العصبي

    Neural TTS

    Text to speech built on neural networks trained on many hours of human speech, so intonation and pauses are generated rather than stitched together from recorded fragments. It is why modern AI voices sound far closer to a real narrator than older robotic systems.

  • Text to speech and voice AIالتنغيم والإيقاع (Prosody)

    Prosody

    The rise and fall, speed, rhythm and stress of speech. It is what makes the same words sound like a question, a statement or excitement, and weak prosody is the quickest giveaway of a low-quality synthetic voice.

  • Text to speech and voice AIتطبيع النص

    Text normalization

    The step where a speech engine turns numbers, dates, currencies and abbreviations into words before reading them. Arabic makes it harder because numbers agree in gender and case with the noun they count.

  • Text to speech and voice AIالفونيم (الصوت اللغوي)

    Phoneme

    The smallest unit of sound that changes a word's meaning when swapped. Some TTS tools let you spell a word in phonemes to fix one the engine keeps mispronouncing.

  • Text to speech and voice AIقاموس النطق

    Pronunciation dictionary

    A saved list of how specific words should be said, such as brand names, people's names and foreign terms, which the engine applies automatically wherever the word appears.

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