How i can

[apkute]

How can I get the tools to pause or take a break by inserting a command like this—<break time="0.3s" />—wherever a pause is needed?

[AlexJumaW99]

<break time="0.3s" /> isn't supported, but VoiceStudio has its own marker for this. Put [pause ...] in your text wherever you want the gap:

Hello there. [pause 0.3s] How are you today?

These forms all work:

Marker	Pause length
[pause]	350 ms (the default)
[pause 300ms]	300 ms
[pause 0.3s]	300 ms
[pause 300]	300 ms (a number with no unit means milliseconds)

Markers aren't case-sensitive, and the maximum is 10 seconds. If you put two markers next to each other, their lengths are added together.

VoiceStudio splits the text at each marker and inserts the silence between the generated parts, so the pause length is exact rather than left to the voice model. The parsing is parse_pause_markers in omnivoice/utils/text.py, if you want to see the exact rules.