Custom pauses

Insert pauses of specific durations into Mist v3 synthesis using angle-bracket markers.

Custom pauses are supported on Mist v3. Coda doesn’t support them.

By default, Rime adds pauses based on sentence punctuation. To set a specific pause, insert its duration in milliseconds inside angle brackets.

For example, <750> inserts a pause of 750 milliseconds (or .75 seconds). In the second clip below, listen for the longer gap after “wait”:

Audio clip	Sentence
	wait, are you actually serious.
	wait. <750> are you actually serious.

When making an API request, you must set pauseBetweenBrackets to true.

This Mist v3 request sends the second clip’s sentence with its 750 ms pause:

Custom Pause Example

{
	"text": "wait. <750> are you actually serious.",
    "speaker": "cove",
    "modelId": "mistv3",
    "pauseBetweenBrackets": true
}