SSML

Sorry, two more features I would love to see for our process.
1. A command line application.
  application  xml-file, output audio file.
 (rather than being buried in some app  I haven't a clue about).
? Off topic I suppose  :-)

2. That the tts system be able to analyse a document and tell me
that it has never heard of word xxxx, rather than creating a 40 minute
recording, only to find that after 35 minutes,
a word has to be added to its dictionary
and the whole job done again. Thats a real bummer.

Even if it pulled them, pronounced each one so that we could
check that it was a good guess/risible would help.

Or it pulled them, marked them up and exported them as XML
for that level of checking!

Regards DaveP