Pauses In Speech?

[LinuxDevice]

I don't know about speech synthesis markup language, but if that applies, I could learn. Maybe someone can comment on this? The description is this...

I have a phrase being spoken in text-to-speech. The delay between words at one particular part of the sentence is almost missing. I need to add a slight delay there. However, if I just break this into two sentences, and set it so the first part completes before starting the second part, the pause is too long. So I think I need to add some sort of markup in the middle of the sentence which lets me set a pause in milliseconds or something similar.

Is there a good way to do this?

[Pfeil]

https://forum.voiceattack.com/smf/index.php?topic=1879.0

[LinuxDevice]

That works, but it changes back to the original Windows voice. If I don't use SSML the voice dropdown menu allows selecting "Microsoft James". When I use SSML, the choice is honored, but even though I still see Microsoft James selected, it plays the "old" default for Windows. Is there a method of selecting the Microsoft James as the voice within the XML markup?

[Pfeil]

https://forum.voiceattack.com/smf/index.php?topic=2299.0

[LinuxDevice]

Thank you!