Adding pause or break between sentences or paragraphs

[Minecraft-111]

Hello, Is there any way to add pauses between sentences? Do I need SSML scripts for this feature?

[brahh85]

--sentence-silence 1

or the time you want

[synesthesiam]

In the next version of Piper, it will be possible to use the break tag.

[DarioDarko]

ive noticed that theres pauses after exclamation and question marks, line breaks also work. but dots dont do anything

[miranda]

I'm struggling with this problem of no way to pause. Pausing between sentences doesn't help, I need it to pause on parenthesis because without doing so it all runs together and sounds really unnatural. Any kind of character that could create a pause would be helpful. Also, periods followed by a space and a capital letter cause their own problems when reading names like "James T. Kirk"... it will pause after the T.

[bocklucas]

--sentence-silence 1

or the time you want

This worked perfectly for me

[sushant-samespace]

@synesthesiam Is there a programmatic way I can add pauses between words or sentences? A full-stop doesn't seem to work. I could not find how to implement '--sentence-silence 1' in inference code. Could you please tell how do you plan to implement the logic for ? Thanks a lot.

[matlo83]

@synesthesiam Is there a programmatic way I can add pauses between words or sentences? A full-stop doesn't seem to work. I could not find how to implement '--sentence-silence 1' in inference code. Could you please tell how do you plan to implement the logic for ? Thanks a lot.

same here. i have piper installed as an add-on for home assistant OS and i've been able to adjust a few things in that config to change the "length_scale" of the voice and the "noise_w", but cannot figure out how to adjust the sentence-silence as you've described above.