<emphasis>

Specifies that the contained text be spoken with emphasis.

Attributes

This section describes the attributes you can set for the <emphasis> element.

Name	Data type	Default
level	(strong | moderate | none | reduced)	Default

level

The level attribute specifies the possible levels of emphasis.

The “none” level is ignored. That is, it cannot be used to suppress emphasis that appears in optimal natural speech output.

Children

• Parsed character data

• <emphasis>

• <break>

• <emphasis>

• <enumerate>

• <mark>

• <prosody>

• <say-as>

• <sub>

• <voice>

Parents

• <emphasis>

• <block>

• <catch>

• <choice>

• <emphasis>

• <enumerate>

• <error>

• <filled>

• <foreach>

• <help>

• <if>

• <mark>

• <noinput>

• <nomatch>

• <option>

• <p> (or <paragraph>)

• <prompt>

• <prosody>

• <s> (or <sentence>)

• <voice>

Sample code

<prompt>

  That was an <emphasis>amazing</emphasis> concert!

  <emphasis level="strong">Wow!</emphasis> It was

  unbelievable.

</prompt>