Pause before or after sentence

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Pause before or after sentence

Postby mthakershi » Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:40 pm

When I do:

"<break strength='weak' />Does this pause before and after?<break strength='weak' />"


Will Cepstral voice do a weak pause before and after? Or pauses at the begin / end are not considered?


Trying to figure out why my speech segment sometimes starts and ends abruptly. E.g. Instead of "Does" sometimes speech sounds like "oes" cutting of "D". So I try to protect it by a weak pause. It doesn't help though so the question.
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Postby AdamW » Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:18 am

When you synthesize the string:
"<break strength='weak' />Does this pause before and after?<break strength='weak' />"

you will get pauses on both ends of the sentence:

you hear a weak pause (short pause)
"Does this pause before and after?" will be spoken
you hear another weak pause (short pause)

The tag is unpaired, it does not wrap the text. It inserts the pause right where it is in the text. (It has its /> closure at the end of the tag. A paired tag would look like this <break>text text</break>)
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