Placing a custom tag in your text

<mark>

This tag is supported by generative, long-form, neural, and standard TTS formats.

To put a custom tag within the text, use the <mark> tag. Amazon Polly takes no action on the tag, but returns the location of the tag in the SSML metadata. This tag can be anything you want to call out, as long as it maintains the following format:

<mark name="tag_name"/>

For example, suppose that the tag name is "animal" and the input text is:

<speak>
     Mary had a little <mark name="animal"/>lamb.
</speak>

Amazon Polly might return the following SSML metadata:

{"time":767,"type":"ssml","start":25,"end":46,"value":"animal"}