TTS tab on the Speech Servers page field descriptions

Last Updated : Jun 05, 2026 |

Use this tab to view information about the Text-to-Speech (TTS) servers currently administered on the Experience Portal system, add a new TTS server, or change an existing server, and add or delete different voices and voice codes.

Note:

Any modifications to the speech servers requires the MPP(s) to be restarted for the affected zone(s).

Tip:

To sort the servers by any column, click the up arrow (sort ascending) or down arrow (sort descending) in the column header.

Column or Button

Description

Selection check box

Use this Selection check box to select which servers you want to delete.

Zone

The name of the zone where the TTS server is configured.

Zones filter icon

Zones filter icon

To filter zones, click this icon located at the right side of the page. The system opens the Zone filter window for selecting one or more zones.

Note:

The Zones filter icon only appears when you create new zones. If you do not create any new zones, you do not see the icon.

Name

The unique identifier for this TTS server on the Experience Portal system.

To change the parameters for a TTS server, click the name of the server in the table. Experience Portal opens the Change TTS Server page.

Enable

Whether this TTS server is available for use by the Experience Portal system.

Network Address

The network address, or location, of the TTS server you want to use.

Engine Type

The type of TTS software engine the server uses.

Note:

To add a third-party TTS server type that mimics an existing TTS server, see Adding a third-party TTS Server type.

MRCP

The MRCP protocol used for allocating the media processing server resources (TTS).

Base Port

The port number on the TTS server to which requests for TTS services are to be sent.

The TTS server must be configured to receive and process requests through this port.

Total Number of Licensed TTS Resources

The total number of licensed TTS resources that is used by the Experience Portal system.

Experience Portal uses this information to determine the total number of TTS resources available to the Experience Portal system.

Voices

The voices that this TTS server is configured to use.

Add

Opens the Add TTS Server page.

Delete

Deletes the TTS servers whose Selection check box has been checked.

After you delete the servers, the System Monitor web page and the MPP Manager web page on EPM display the Restart needed configuration status for affected MPPs that are in the Running state. You must restart affected MPPs before the deleted TTS servers will be removed from the MPP’s configuration.

Customize

Opens the TTS Custom Voices page. Using this page you can add custom voices and their respective language codes to the Text-to-Speech (TTS) servers currently administered on the Experience Portal system. You can also delete the existing custom configured voices and their respective language codes.