Inworld TTS Paralinguistic Tags Don't Work — Here's What Does

If you've worked with expressive TTS in the last year you've probably seen the pattern:

She paused. [sigh] "Fine, you can come in."

Inline paralinguistic tags. Half the model demos use them. So when we wired up Inworld TTS-1.5 Max for — Telegram-native AI companion where voice messages are a first-class output. Canonical version: — supported request parameters (temperature, speakingRate), SSML subset, voice design API.