Does Android TTS support Speech Synthesis Markup Language?

Question

Passing the following SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) document to the com.svox.pico TextToSpeech engine resulted in a reading of the XML body but no control from the

Answer 1

I've been experimenting with SSML and it seems that the TTS engine wraps its input automaticly with the root element, so if you leave it out, then it works fine and you don't get a parser error.

Example:

String text = "Testing .";
mTts.speak(text, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);