# SSML tags in an Amazon Connect chat conversation
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If you create text-to-speech text and apply SSML tags, they won't be interpreted in a chat conversation. For example, in the following image both the text **and tags** will be printed in the chat conversation. 

![\[SSML tags in a text to speech box.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/images/ssml-tags-in-prompt.png)