Merge pull request #85839 from erhopf/ssml-updates-august

PRMerger13 · web-flow · commit f6ed02c27b91 · 2019-08-19T13:26:05.000-07:00
[CogSvcs] SSML Updates
diff --git a/articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/overview.md b/articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/overview.md
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Learn what's new with the Azure Speech Services.
 
 * August 2019
   * **New tutorial**: [Voice enable your bot with the Speech SDK, C#](tutorial-voice-enable-your-bot-speech-sdk.md)
+  * Added a new speaking style, [`chat`](speech-synthesis-markup.md#adjust-speaking-styles), for the `en-US-JessaNeural` voice. 
 * June 2019
   * Released Speech SDK 1.6.0. For a full list of updates, enhancements, and known issues, see [Release notes](releasenotes.md).
 * May 2019 - Documentation is now available for [Conversation Transcription](conversation-transcription-service.md), [Call Center Transcription](call-center-transcription.md), and [Voice-first Virtual Assistants](voice-first-virtual-assistants.md).
diff --git a/articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/speech-synthesis-markup.md b/articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/speech-synthesis-markup.md
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ Choose from standard and neural voices, or create your own custom voice unique t
 
 To learn more about standard, neural, and custom voices, see [Text-to-speech overview](text-to-speech.md).
 
+## Special characters
+
+While using SSML to convert text-to-synthesized speech, keep in mind that just like with XML, special characters, such as quotation marks, apostrophes, and brackets must be escaped. For more information, see [Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0: Appendix D](https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-entexpand).
+
 ## Supported SSML elements
 
 Each SSML document is created with SSML elements (or tags). These elements are used to adjust pitch, prosody, volume, and more. The following sections detail how each element is used, and when an element is required or optional.  
@@ -137,6 +141,7 @@ Use this table to determine which speaking styles are supported for each neural
 |-------|------|-------------|
 | `en-US-JessaNeural` | type=`cheerful` | Expresses an emotion that is positive and happy |
 | | type=`empathy` | Expresses a sense of caring and understanding |
+| | type=`chat` | Speak in a casual, relaxed tone |
 | `zh-CN-XiaoxiaoNeural` | type=`newscast` | Expresses a formal tone, similar to news broadcasts |
 | | type=`sentiment` | Conveys a touching message or a story |
 
