"s" Element
<s>
Description
Regards the text surrounded with tags as a sentence.
Syntax
| <s xml:lang = “locale” child elements </s> |
Attributes
| Attribute | Description |
| xml:lang | Specifies the language to be used within the sentences and locale. optional field |
Parent
<audio>, <p>, <prosody>, <speak>, <voice>
Children
<audio>, <break>, <emphasis>, <mark>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <sub>, <voice>, #TEXT, #CDATA-SECTION
Limitations/Restrictions
Regardless of the punctuation marks, it inserts a pause (466ms) at the beginning and end of the text in order to define the boundaries of a sentence.
When the specified xml:lang does not exist, the attribute will be ignored.
Example
| <?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"> <p> <s>This is the first sentence of the paragraph.</s> <s>Here's another sentence.</s> </p> </speak> |