The prosody element

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Description

The prosody element permits control of the pitch, speaking rate and volume of speech output.
Consult Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 for further information.

Possible children

This element may contain text. It may contain the following children: abbr, annotation, caption, code, d, date, definition, emph, expansion, identifier, l, m:math, name, noteref, object, pagebreak, ssml:phoneme, place, ssml:prosody, quote, reference, its:ruby, ssml:say-as, sel:select, span, sub, ssml:sub, sup, term, ssml:token and w.

Possible parents

annotation, m:annotation-xml, aside, bridgehead, caption, cite, d, dd, definition, dt, emph, expansion, xforms:group, h, hpart, l, xforms:label, li, li, meta, note, object, sel:otherwise, p, ssml:prosody, quote, quote, its:rb, reference, xforms:repeat, its:rt, s, span, td, th, title and sel:when

Content model

Namespace

http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis

This element belongs to the feature «SSML (Speech Synthesiser Markup Language) Integration»

Attributes

Name Presence Description
class Optional The Z39.86 class attribute inherits all fundamental properties of the XHTML class attribute. It is used for arbitrary grouping or classification of elements, usable for example in the context of CSS styling.
The class attribute is not used to inflect semantics on the content of elements.
Value: Some value of type NMTOKENS
contour Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
duration Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
pitch Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
range Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
rate Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
volume Optional No further information about this attribute is available.
Value: Any string
its:dir Optional The its:dir attribute is used to specify the base writing direction of the content. If not specified, the default value ltr is assumed.
Consult Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) for further information.
This attribute belongs to the feature «ITS Ruby»
Value:

One of

lro
ltr
rlo
rtl
xml:base Optional The xml:base attribute is used to specify a base URI other than the base URI of the document or external entity.
Consult XML Base for further information.
Value: Some value of type anyURI
xml:id Optional The xml:id attribute specifies a document-wide unique identifier of the element.
Consult xml:id Version 1.0 for further information.
Value: Some value of type ID
xml:lang Optional The xml:lang attribute is used to identify the natural or formal language in which the content is written.
Consult Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 for further information.
Value: Some value of type language
xml:space Optional The xml:space attribute is used to signal an intention that element white space should be preserved by applications.
If not specified, the default value "default" is assumed.
Consult Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 for further information.
Value:

One of

default
preserve

Additional Information