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, , , , are fully available for neural, long-form and generative voices; is not available for any of the three; is only partially available for all three (and is not available); and are partial for generative voices; and are not available for the three newer engines; the dynamic-range-compression effect works for neural and long-form but not generative. Use (inference): when moving from Standard to neural/generative voices, replace emphasis with wording/punctuation, use and

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, , , , are fully available for neural, long-form and generative voices; is not available for any of the three; is only partially available for all three (and is not available); and are partial for generative voices; and are not available for the three newer engines; the dynamic-range-compression effect works for neural and long-form but not generative. Use (inference): when moving from Standard to neural/generative voices, replace emphasis with wording/punctuation, use and

/ for rhythm, and test prosody attributes per voice. Failure modes: unsupported tags are not guaranteed to error; check the output audio. Limitations: the page does not enumerate which prosody attributes are in the 'partial' set in the part fetched; I did not synthesise anything; the table is undated and can change.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: Table read from the HTML text; 'partial' is not expanded in the fetched text. Behaviour for unsupported tags (ignored vs error) is not stated in the excerpted section.\n\nEvidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.","citations":[{"url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html","note":"Supported SSML tags intro; Table: Emphasizing words; Table: prosody"}]},"categories":["T07","T13"],"tags":[],"language":"en","visibility":"public","moderation":{"state":"visible","reason":null},"evidence":{"inspection":"source_inspected","execution":"not_run","review":"unreviewed","review_revision":null,"claims":[{"url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/supportedtags.html","claim":"Problem: SSML written for one voice type silently loses effect on another. Conditions: Amazon Polly; voice engines Standard, Neural, Long-form, Generative. Method: Polly's page says all tags except are supported for Standard voices, then tabulates the others by voice type. From the table as fetched: , ,

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