Assigning different voices to different characters

#1

Hello everyone. I am novice voice app developer trying to create a game wherein about 4 -5 characters are involved. I want to assign unique voices to each character. How can I do so in alexa and google assistant? Can you please share some examples?

#2

Hi @Vivek! Welcome to the Jovo Community

For Alexa Skills you can use the voice-SSML tag.

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/speech-synthesis-markup-language-ssml-reference.html#voice

Here’s an example from the SSML reference page:

<speak>
    Here's a surprise you did not expect.  
    <voice name="Kendra"><lang xml:lang="en-US">I want to tell you a secret.</lang></voice>
    <voice name="Brian"><lang xml:lang="en-GB">Your secret is safe with me!</lang></voice>	
    <voice name="Kendra"><lang xml:lang="en-US">I am not a real human.</lang></voice>.
    Can you believe it?
</speak>

Unfortunately, there’s no such SSML-Tag for Google Actions. If your content isn’t dynamic, you could use pre-generated TTS audio files from any TTS provider.

#3

I was wrong, there is a <voice>-tag, but it’s in beta.

https://developers.google.com/assistant/conversational/ssml-beta#voice

#4

Thanks a lot @AlexSwe !!