<emphasis>

Description

Specifies that the enclosed text should be spoken with emphasis.

Syntax

<emphasis
    level="strong" | "moderate" | "none" | "reduced">
  child elements
</emphasis>

Attributes

Parents

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

Children

<audio>, <break>, <emphasis>, <mark>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <sub>, <voice>, <value>, #PCDATA

Limitations/Restrictions

• Currently, <enumerate> and <mark> are not supported within <emphasis>.
• <emphasis> is only supported as a child of <foreach> when <foreach> is used within <prompt>.
• Refer to your vendor documentation for support details.

Example

To include speech markup tags, insert the SSML tags inside one of the <prompt>, <audio>, <choice>, <enumerate>, or <foreach> (within <prompt>) elements.

<prompt>
   Hello, <emphasis level="strong">world</emphasis>!
</prompt>