# Supported SSML tags
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All tags except for `<amazon:domain name="news">` are supported for Standard voices. Tag availability for other voices is provided in the following table.

Amazon Polly supports the following SSML tags:


| Action | SSML tag | Neural voice availability | Long-form voice availability | Generative voice availability | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| [Adding a pause](break-tag.md) | <break> | Full availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Emphasizing words](emphasis-tag.md) | <emphasis> | Not available | Not available | Not available | 
| [Specifying another language for specific words](lang-tag.md) | <lang> | Full availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Placing a custom tag in your text](custom-tag.md) | <mark> | Full availability | Full availability | Partial availability | 
| [Adding a pause between paragraphs](p-tag.md) | <p> | Full availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Using phonetic pronunciation](phoneme-tag.md) | <phoneme> | Full availability | Full availability | Partial availability | 
| [Controlling volume, speaking rate, and pitch](prosody-tag.md) | <prosody> | Partial availability | Partial availability | Partial availiability | 
| [Setting a maximum duration for synthesized speech](maxduration-tag.md) | <prosody amazon:max-duration> | Not available | Not available | Not available | 
| [Adding a pause between sentences](s-tag.md) | <s> | Full availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Controlling how special types of words are spoken](say-as-tag.md) | <say-as> | Partial availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Identifying SSML-enhanced text](speak-tag.md) | <speak> | Full availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Pronouncing acronyms and abbreviations](sub-tag.md) | <sub> | Full availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Improving pronunciation by specifying parts of speech](w-tag.md) | <w> | Full availability | Full availability | Full availability | 
| [Adding the sound of breathing](breath-tag.md) | <amazon:auto-breaths> | Not available | Not available | Not available | 
| [Newscaster speaking style](newscaster-tag.md) | <amazon:domain name="news"> | Select neural voices only | Not available | Not available | 
| [Adding dynamic range compression](drc-tag.md) | <amazon:effect name="drc"> | Full availability | Full availability | Not available | 
| [Speaking softly](phonation-tag.md) | <amazon:effect phonation="soft"> | Not available | Not available | Not available | 
| [Controlling timbre](vocaltractlength-tag.md) | <amazon:effect vocal-tract-length> | Not available | Not available | Not available | 
| [Whispering](whispered-tag.md) | <amazon:effect name="whispered"> | Not available | Not available | Not available | 

**Note**  
If you use unsupported SSML tags in standard, neural, or long-form format, you will get an error.