<voice>

New in VoiceXML 2.0. Speech Synthesis Markup Language element that requests a change in speaking voice.

Syntax

 <voice
     gender="male"|"female"|"neutral"
     age="integer"
     variant="integer"
     name="string" 
     xml:lang="string" 
 >
   Text
 </voice>

Description

Attributes describe the preferred characteristics of the voice to speak the contained text.

Attribute Description

gender
The preferred gender. Optional.

Possible values are:

• male

• female

• neutral

age
Not Implemented. The preferred age. Optional.

variant
Not Implemented. A preferred variant of the other voice characteristics (for example, the second or next male child voice). Optional.

name
A platform-specific voice name to speak the contained text or a space-separated list of names ordered by decreasing preference. Currently limited to one of the following:
· jennifer--female, American English
· laurie--female, Vocalizer English
· katarina--female, RealSpeak German
· maria--female, Vocalizer Spanish
· mark--male, American English
· reed--male, Vocalizer American English

Optional (default is current value of the bevocal.voice.name property).

xml:lang
New in VoiceXML 2.0. Language and locale for the content. Optional. (default is en-US).

Errors

An error.noresource event is thrown when an invalid TTS voice is specified in the name attribute.

Usage

Parents Children

<audio> <bevocal:whisper> <choice> <emphasis> <enumerate> <p> <paragraph> <prompt> <prosody> <s> <sentence> <voice> <audio> <break> <emphasis> <enumerate> <mark> <p> <paragraph> <phoneme> <prosody> <s> <say-as> <sentence> <value> <voice>

See Also

•	VoiceXML 2.0 Specification: `<voice>`
•	Related tags: `<break>`, `<emphasis>`, `<mark>`, `<paragraph>`, `<phoneme>`, `<prosody>`, `<say-as>`, `<sentence>`

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`<audio>` `<bevocal:whisper>` `<choice>` `<emphasis>` `<enumerate>` `<p>` `<paragraph>` `<prompt>` `<prosody>` `<s>` `<sentence>` `<voice>`	`<audio>` `<break>` `<emphasis>` `<enumerate>` `<mark>` `<p>` `<paragraph>` `<phoneme>` `<prosody>` `<s>` `<say-as>` `<sentence>` `<value>` `<voice>`