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3.59 voice
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Element type |
voice |
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Attributes |
age | category | gender | name | variant |
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Parents |
audio | choice | emphasis | enumerate | menu | paragraph | prompt | prosody | sentence | voice |
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Children |
PCDATA | audio | break | enumerate | mark | paragraph | phoneme | prosody | say-as | sentence | value | voice |
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Description |
Causes the text-to-speech processor to use a different speaking voice for rendering the contained markup. |
DTD
<!ELEMENT voice (%allowed-within-sentence; | %structure;)* > <!ATTLIST voice gender (male | female | neutral) #IMPLIED age %integer; #IMPLIED category (child | teenager | adult | elder) #IMPLIED variant %integer; #IMPLIED name CDATA #IMPLIED >
Language model
Attributes
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age : integer
The age of the synthetic speaker in years.
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gender : (male | female | neutral)
The gender of the synthesized voice.
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name : voice-names
Indicates that a platform-specific named speaker should be used.
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variant : integer
Enables a particular platform-specific speech synthesis variant.
Children
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audible and tts content
To be rendered with the parameters of the voice element.
Examples
Example 3-70 Rendering text-to-speech with specific voice personae
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
<form id="test">
<block>
<prompt>
<voice gender="male">This is a male voice.</voice>
<voice gender="female">This is a female voice.</voice>
<voice name="bob">This is how Bob speaks.</voice>
</prompt>
</block>
</form>
</vxml>