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Interaction Designer Tools for Interaction Text to Speech

You can use the following Interaction Designer tools with Interaction Text to Speech when Interaction Media Server is set as the default Text-to-Speech provider:

Play tools	Record tools	Play prompt tools
Play String Play String Extended Play Text File Play Text File Extended	Record String Record String Extended Record Text File Record Text File Extended	Play Prompt Phrase

Interaction Text to Speech with SAPI or MRCP TTS as default

If you use SAPI or MRCP, you can still configure these tools to use Interaction Text to Speech by specifying an optional parameter, "I3TTS", in the properties for that tool step:

You can also specify other parameters to control various characteristics of the synthesized speech of Interaction Text to Speech.

Note:

To use multiple parameters, use a space between each parameter in the Optional Parameters box. Separate parameters from values with a colon (:). You must use double quotation marks around the entire string of characters. For example, "I3TTS i3tts.content.language:text/plain".

Parameter	Values	Description
I3TTS	N/A	If Interaction Text to Speech is not selected as the default TTS provider, use this parameter to set Interaction Text to Speech as the TTS provider. Note: Specify this parameter before any other parameters.
i3tts.content.language	Language values as specified in RFC 3066	Use this parameter to specify the language for ITTS to use to synthesize the text.
i3tts.content.type	text/plain (default) application/ssml+xml	Use this parameter to specify the content type of the text for ITTS to synthesize.
i3tts.voice.name	ITTS voice to use for the specified language.	Use this parameter to specify the i3tts voice for ITTS to use to synthesize the text. ITTS uses the following voices for the supported languages: Dutch (NL) - Marina English (US) - Jill English (AU) - Kandyce English (GB) - Ellene French (CA) – Hilorie French (FR) - Manon German (DE) – Arabella Italian (IT) - Luisa Japanese (JP) – Miki Mandarin (CN) – Mei-Ling Portuguese (BR) – Viviane Spanish (US) - Isabel
i3tts.voice.rate	A non-negative percentage default x-fast fast medium slow x-slow	Use this parameter to specify the SSML prosody rate of the selected ITTS voice.
i3tts.voice.volume	A positive or negative value in decibels (dB) default x-loud loud medium soft x-soft silent	Use this parameter to specify the SSML prosody volume of the selected ITTS voice.
i3tts.voice.pitch	A value in hertz (Hz) default x-high high medium low x-low	Use this parameter to specify the SSML prosody pitch of the selected ITTS voice.