Schema Documentation: the prosody element

Permits control of the pitch, speaking rate and volume of speech output.

Refer to SSML 1.1 for further information.

Usage Example

<p>The <ssml:prosody rate="slow"><name xml:lang="la">platysma myoides</name></ssml:prosody>, which is well 
    developed on the neck, belongs to this system, but cannot be voluntarily brought into action.</p>

Allowed parents

annoref, annotation (block variant), annotation (phrase variant), m:annotation-xml, aside, block, caption, citation (block variant), citation (phrase variant), d, definition, emph, expansion, h, hd, hpart, item, ln, d:longdesc, meta, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), noteref, p, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, ref, its:rt, s, ssml:say-as (phrase variant), ssml:say-as (text variant), d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span, ssml:sub, d:summary, td, term, th and d:tour

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, annoref, annotation, ssml:break, char, citation, code, d, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, rend:linebreak, ln, m:math, name, note, noteref, num, object (text variant), object (phrase variant), pagebreak, ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), quote, ref, its:ruby, s, ssml:say-as (text variant), ssml:say-as (phrase variant), span (text variant), span (phrase variant), sub, ssml:sub (text variant), ssml:sub (phrase variant), sup, term, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant) and w

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @class, @contour, @duration, @its:dir, @its:translate, @pitch, @range, @rate, @volume, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space

one or more of

a choice of

either one of the 45 elements: abbr, annoref, annotation, char, citation, code, d, definition, emph, emph, expansion, its:ruby, ln, m:math, name, note, noteref, num, object, object, pagebreak, quote, ref, rend:linebreak, s, span, span, ssml:break, ssml:break, ssml:phoneme, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, ssml:prosody, ssml:say-as, ssml:say-as, ssml:sub, ssml:sub, ssml:token, ssml:token, sub, sup, term, time, w or w

or text

end of choice

Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirements:

The ssml:prosody element must not have ssml:prosody descendants.
The ssml:prosody element must neither be empty nor contain only whitespace.

Such requirements take precedence over any conflicting statements in the content model or in the lists above of allowed children and parents.

Variants

This element exists in 2 variants. The other variant is the text variant.

Namespace

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