CCXML Voxeo 1.0 Development Guide

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This documentation is for CCXML 1.0-Voxeo, which has been superceded by CCXML 1.0-W3C. The CCXML-Voxeo platform is not being updated any longer. The CCXML 1.0-W3C version, however, has many new features and is actively being enhanced. If you're writing a new CCXML application, you should use CCXML 1.0-W3C. Click here for the CCXML 1.0-W3C documentation.

Rhetorical TTS Markup Guide

This document details the specifications and usage of the Rhetorical TTS engine to help you tune your synthesized speech output to sound flawless. Also covered in this document is information illustrating the differences between using Speechify and Rhetorical, along with useful pointers on using some of the advanced features of this new TTS offering.

Why Rhetorical?

A valid question. Is one better than the other? We leave that up to you to decide. We realize offering one engine for synthesized speech may not be to everyone's taste; moreover, some applications require TTS features not included in the standard Speechify engine. As such, we make the Rhetorical offering available for those who want a taste of something different. So what's so different about it anyhow? To start out with the basics, let's listen to some comparisons:

TTS Voices

Rhetorical offers both English-Female, English-Male, Spanish-Female, and Spanish-Male TTS voices. In order to enable these TTS personas, you will need to define the <say voice> attribute within your CallXML code. Note that there are two syntaxes that you can use to enable the desired Rhetorical voices; use either of the two, (but not both, okay?), to set the voice to your liking.

Below is an example listing of all TTS voices available on the Rhetorical engine, along with both versions of the syntax that you can use to enable them:


   <!-- ENGLISH FEMALE-->
<dialogstart src="'null://?termdigits=123*#&amp;voice=English-Female3&amp;text=Listen to my groovy female voice'" type="'application/x-fetchdigits'"/>

    <!-- ENGLISH MALE -->
<dialogstart src="'null://?termdigits=123*#&amp;voice=English-Male3&amp;text=Listen to my groovy female voice'" type="'application/x-fetchdigits'"/>


    <!-- SPANISH FEMALE -->
<dialogstart src="'null://?termdigits=123*#&amp;voice=Spanish-Female3&amp;text=aqui esta la voz femenina, espanola y retorica'" type="'application/x-fetchdigits'"/>

    <!-- SPANISH MALE -->
<dialogstart src="'null://?termdigits=123*#&amp;voice=Spanish-Male3&amp;text=aqui esta la voz masculina, espanola y retorica'" type="'application/x-fetchdigits'"/>

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