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A recent report regarding Smart Speaker adoption, stated that over 66 million people in the United States now own at least one smart speaker. Google and Amazon are making smart speakers, smarter, as they race to put them in every device that we own, and every room that we enter.
One of the things that make smart speakers appear smarter, is the ability to use different voices. With Google, you can change the default voice to an alternate one. And with Amazon smart speakers, you can use multiple voices. Using an alternate voice (or voices) can enhance the user's experience, and expand your audience.
In addition to changing voices, there are several other features to help you make your content sound, just right. These new features are referred to as SSML (or Speech Synthetic Markup Language). SSML is a markup language like HTML, that provides a way to enhance how your content sounds.
Let's look at a few examples of how SSML is used.