Is it possible to add speech disfluency to SSML with Dialogflow?

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Is it possible to add some disfluency words like "mmh-mh", "huh", "uh", "erm", "um"," "hmm" into a Dialogflow conversation (only interacting by voice) using SSML? Currently, when I add "mmh" to a sentence, it will be being spoken as characters m-m-h but not as a disfluency word.

Any ideas?

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Have you tried using Oxford English words that sound like disfluencies?

For example, "em" (as in em dash) might sound like ummmm. "Ohm" and "home" might also sound like ummmm.

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I tried to test disfluency words pronunciation using TTS simulator in Action console (select your project > click on Test > click on Audio) and most of these words sound well. I tested "uh", "oh", "ah", "erm", "hmm", "um", "aha" and all of them sound normal, but some of them like "mhm", "mmh-mh", "mmh" spelled as characters. You need to create Feature Request (select "Create new Cloud Text-to-Speech issue") and add what words or interjection should be added to the library.