"speak" Root Element

<speak>

Speak is the root element of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML).

<speak

version = “1.0”

xml:lang = “locale”

xml:base = “URI”

xmlns = “URI”

xsi:schemaLocation = “URI”

… >

child element

</speak>

Attribute	Description
version	Sets the version of the SSML document. Note that since SSML 1.0 is the only version supported. For convenience, any other values supplied here will internally be forced to and processed as "1.0" Note that when using lexicons with TTS1, there is some limited extended support for SSML 1.0 functionality, so a value of "1.1" is also permitted here for TTS1 mandatory field
xml:lang	Sets the basic language of the SSML document. Language information is inherited down the document hierarchy, i.e. it has to be given only once if the whole document is in one language, and language information nests, i.e. inner attributes overwrite outer attributes. mandatory field
xml:base	Sets the base URI of the SSML document. Relative URIs are resolved according to a base URI, which may come from a variety of sources. The base URI declaration allows authors to specify a document's base URI explicitly. optional field
xmlns	Specifies the SSML namespace, which should be set to "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis". optional field
xsi:schemaLocation	Indicates the location of the SSML schema. namespace, which should be set to "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/synthesis.xsd". optional field

None

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

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<speak version="1.0"

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis

http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/synthesis.xsd"

xml:lang="en-US">

... the body ...

</speak>

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