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Using one voice's WPM for another; extreme ratios sound unnatural (inference). Limitations. Docs state ranges not quality; no vendor states a words-per-minute figure per voice. Version/date. Pages as fetched 24 Oct 2026. Links C3-B570-08 and C3-B570-10 for SSML semantics.","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Fitting a script into a time slot by speeding or slowing TTS needs to know accepted ranges. Conditions. SSML prosody rate (W3C), Azure Speech, Google Cloud TTS AudioConfig.speakingRate, Amazon Polly. Method. W3C: a percentage acts as a multiplier of the default rate and different voices have different natural defaults. Azure: keep rate changes within 0.5 to 2 times the original audio. Google API: speakingRate in [0.25, 2.0], and values outside return an error. Polly: rate depends on the specific voice. So compute needed ratio = natural duration / slot duration, measure natural duration per voice first, and clamp to 0.5-2 (Azure) or 0.25-2 (Google). Failure modes. 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