SSML 1.1 is published as a Proposed Recommendation

We are pleased to announce the advancement of Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML) Version 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation on 23 February.

SSML is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for
assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other
applications.  The essential role of the markup language is to provide
authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of
speech such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across
different synthesis-capable platforms.  SSML 1.1 improves SSML 1.0
support for a broader set of natural (human) languages

The specification is now available as follows.

This version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-speech-synthesis11-20100223/

Latest version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/

Best regards,

Kazuyuki Ashimura (on behalf of the Voice Browser Working Group co-Chairs)
Voice Browser Activity Lead