<speak>

Description

Acts as the root element for SSML, but provides no additional functionality. Note that the VoiceGenie VoiceXML interpreter automatically wraps <speak> tags around any text that will be synthesized into speech, and adds the XML header. Please note the important limitation below.

Syntax

<speak
    xml:lang="language">
  child elements
</speak>

Attributes

Parents

None.

Children

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

IMPORTANT LIMITATION

Since the VoiceXML interpreter already wraps <speak> tags around any text that will be synthesized into speech (and adds the XML header), the application developer should never include <speak> tags in such text (or add the XML header). This would result in embedded <speak> tags, which is not allowed, and all contained text would be ignored.

So when defining SSML content within <audio>, <choice>, <enumerate>, <foreach> (within <prompt>), or <prompt>, do not include the <speak> tag (or the XML header).