<break>

Speech Synthesis Markup Language element that inserts a pause in audio output.

Syntax

 <break
     time="time_interval"
     size="none"|"small"|"medium"|"large"
 />

Description

Attribute Description

time
New in VoiceXML 2.0. Amount of time to pause, in milliseconds. Optional (default is 1 second).

Express time interval as an unsigned number followed by s for time in seconds; ms for time in milliseconds (the default).

size
How long to pause, specified qualitatively. Optional (as alternative to msecs).

• none--No pause.

• small--Short pause (500 milliseconds).

• medium--Longer pause (1 second).

• large--Long pause (2 seconds).

(VoiceXML 1.0 only) The following attributes can be used in applications in which the version attribute of the <vxml> tag is set to 1.0.

Attribute Description

msecs
VoiceXML 1.0 only. Amount of time to pause, in milliseconds. Optional (default is 1 second).

Express time interval as an unsigned number followed by s for time in seconds; ms for time in milliseconds (the default).

Used in place of the VoiceXML 2.0 time attribute.

Usage

Parents Children

<audio> <bevocal:whisper> <choice> <emphasis> <enumerate> <p> <paragraph> <prompt> <prosody> <s> <sentence> <voice>
None.

See Also

•	SSML 1.0 Specification: `<break>`
•	Related tags: `<emphasis>`, `<mark>`, `<paragraph>`, `<phoneme>`, `<prosody>`, `<say-as>`, `<sentence>`, `<voice>`

Examples

 <?xml version="1.0" ?>
 <!DOCTYPE vxml PUBLIC "-//BeVocal Inc//VoiceXML 2.0//EN"
  "http://cafe.bevocal.com/libraries/dtd/vxml2-0-bevocal.dtd">
 
 <vxml version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/vxml">
   <form id="demo-break">
     <block>
       <prompt>
         Voice X M L allows the programming of silence
         <break size="medium"/>
         with the break tag.
       </prompt>
     </block>
   </form>
 </vxml>

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Parents	Children
`<audio>` `<bevocal:whisper>` `<choice>` `<emphasis>` `<enumerate>` `<p>` `<paragraph>` `<prompt>` `<prosody>` `<s>` `<sentence>` `<voice>`	None.