<phoneme>

Description

Specifies a phonetic pronunciation for the contained text. The format of the representation is vendor-specific, and does not always use one of the 3 alphabets below. See your vendor documentation for details.

Syntax

<phoneme
    ph="string"
    alphabet="ipa" | "worldbet" | "xsampa">
  text
</phoneme>

Attributes

Parents

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

Children

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Limitations/Restrictions

• <phoneme> 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>
   <!-- If your TTS engine supports the 'ipa' alphabet, -->
   <!-- then this reads out "tomato" with a UK accent -->
   <phoneme alphabet="ipa" ph="t&#x252;m&#x251;to&#x28A;"/>
</prompt>