The SSML Basics Every Creator Should Know

You paste a script into a text-to-speech tool, hit generate, and the result sounds… flat. The pacing is wrong, emphasis lands on the wrong syllable, and your carefully chosen words blur together into a robotic drone. You know the content is good. The delivery just isn't there yet. That gap between "readable" and "listenable" is exactly what SSML closes. Speech Synthesis Markup Language is a W3C standard that lets you tell a TTS engine how to speak — not just what to say. Think of it as stage dir