"voice" Element

<voice>

Description

Sets the voice to be used.

Syntax  

Attributes        

Parent

<audio>, <emphasis>, <p>, <prosody>, <s>, <speak>, <voice>

Children

<audio>, <break>, <emphasis>, <mark>, <p>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <sub>, <s>, <voice>, #TEXT, #CDATA-SECTION

Limitations/Restrictions

LumenVox supports only the xml:lang, name and gender attributes. Other attributes (age and variant) are not supported and will be ignored.

The priority of application is as follows: name > xml:lang > gender. 

Please refer to the LumenVox TTS Voices article for the names of the voices that are supported by LumenVox.

Within a single SSML document/synthesis request, it is not possible to switch between voices of the TTS1 type and voices of the TTS2 family. For instance, a document that specifies the Jason voice (American English male, TTS2) cannot  later use a voice element that specifies the Chris (American English male, TTS1) voice. If you were using Jason and wished to switch to Chris, you would need to do that in a separate SSML document as part of another synthesis request. Also note that if your client_property.conf file has any value other than "default" for the SYNTH_VOICE_NAME property, that family of TTS will be the only one that can be used. E.g. if Jason is specified for SYNTH_VOICE_NAME, you cannot ever switch to Chris via the SSML <voice> element.

Although each attribute individually is optional, it is an error if no attributes are specified when the voice element is used.

Example