Writing Responses with Markdown
Speech Markdown[35] is a community-led project that makes it possible to write your speech responses using a variation of the popular Markdown[36] text-processing tool.
As a simple example of Speech Markdown’s capabilities, consider the following SSML that has an interjection:
| | <speak> |
| | <say-as interpret-as="interjection">Great Scott!</say-as> |
| | </speak> |
Using Speech Markdown, this same response could be written like this:
| | (Great Scott!)[interjection] |
While the SSML document may have been a bit more clear in purpose, the Speech Markdown snippet is a clear winner when it comes to brevity.
Aside from interjections, Speech Markdown offers full parity with all of SSML, including Alexa-specific tags such as
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