title: Does Android TTS support Speech Synthesis Markup Language?
body: <p>Passing the following SSML (<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/" rel="noreferrer">Speech Synthesis Markup Language</a>) document to the com.svox.pico TextToSpeech engine resulted in a reading of the XML body but no control from the phoneme element or the emphasis element.  This result (no apparent SSML control) is the same on a Nexus One running Android 2.2 as well as on the emulator running an AVD with SDK level 8.</p>
  
  <pre><code>            String text = "&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\"?&gt;" +
                  "&lt;speak version=\"1.0\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis\" " +
                      "xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" " +
                      "xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis " +
                          "http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/synthesis.xsd\" " +
                      "xml:lang=\"en-US\"&gt;" +
  
                      "tomato " +
                      "&lt;phoneme alphabet=\"ipa\" ph=\"t&amp;amp;#x259;mei&amp;amp;#x325;&amp;amp;#x27E;ou&amp;amp;#x325;\"&gt; tomato &lt;/phoneme&gt; " +
  
                      "That is a big car! " +
                      "That &lt;emphasis&gt; is &lt;/emphasis&gt; a big car! " +
                      "That is a &lt;emphasis&gt; big &lt;/emphasis&gt; car! " +
                      "That is a huge bank account! " +
                      "That &lt;emphasis level=\"strong\"&gt; is &lt;/emphasis&gt; a huge bank account! " +
                      "That is a &lt;emphasis level=\"strong\"&gt; huge &lt;/emphasis&gt; bank account!" +
                  "&lt;/speak&gt;";
              mTts.speak(text, TextToSpeech.QUEUE_ADD, null);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><b>Does any Android TTS engine support any of the SSML elements?</b></p>