Speech Synthesis Markup Language
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Speech Synthesis Markup Language is a W3C recommendation and is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications.
Here is an example of a SSML document:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <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"> ... the body ... </speak>