<voice>
Allows you to modify the voice used by your application for text-to-speech.
The voices available depend primarily on the language being used, as specified in the xml:lang attribute. In order for the <voice> element to be useful, you must have more than one voice installed for the same language(s).
Attributes
This section describes the attributes you can set for the <voice> element.
| Name |
Data type |
Default |
|---|---|---|
| age |
CDATA |
optional |
| gender |
(male | female | neutral) |
optional |
|
name |
CDATA |
optional |
| variant | CDATA | optional |
|
xml:lang |
NMTOKENS |
required |
age
Ignored.
gender
The gender attribute allows you to specify the preferred gender of the voice that renders contained text in your application.
name
The name attribute allows you to specify the name of a platform-specific voice to render contained text in your application
variant
Ignored..
xml:lang
The xml:lang attribute specifies the language and locale of the document using an identifier. If the xml:lang value is not specified, the value is inherited from the nearest default. The value of the xml:lang attribute is defined as:
lang_value = language [DELIMITER country]
DELIMITER = "-"
language = <ISO-639 language code>
country = <ISO-3166 country code>
For example, some valid specifications of the xml:lang attribute are:
fr French
en-US American English
If the xml:lang conflicts with another attribute (for example, if the name specified for the voice is only available in another installed language), the xml:lang setting takes precedence, and that language’s default voice is used.
Children
- Parsed character data
- <voice>
Parents
Sample Code
<form>
<block>
<!-- This text will be spoken by Tom, the North American English male voice. -->
<prompt xml:lang="en-US">
<voice name="Tom">Hello, how may I help you?</voice>
</prompt>
</block>
</form>
