# <audio>

Description

Plays an audio file. If the file cannot be played, the content of the `<audio>` element is played instead. Note that this speech markup `<audio>` tag is different from the VoiceXML `<audio>` tag. Please note the important limitation below.

Syntax

    <audio
        src="URI">
      child elements
    </audio>

Attributes

Attribute | Description
src | Specifies the URI of an audio file to play.

Parents

<audio>, <emphasis>, <enumerate>, <paragraph>, <p>, <prompt>, <prosody>, <sentence>, <s>, <speak>, <voice>

Children

<audio>, <break>, <emphasis>, <mark>, <paragraph>, <p>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <sentence>, <s>, <sub>, <voice>, #PCDATA

IMPORTANT LIMITATION

The VoiceGenie VoiceXML interpreter removes any SSML `<audio>` tags that appear within text that will be synthesized into speech. The application developer should therefore never include SSML `<audio>` tags in such text. They would be removed, along with all contained text.