"prosody" Element
<prosody>
Description
Designates the prosodic attributes (pitch, speed, volume) of the text surrounded with tags.
Syntax
| <prosody pitch = “x-low” | “low” | “medium” | “high” | “x-high” | “default” | relative change(unit : Hz) contour = (X1%,pitch1)(X2%,pitch2)...(Xn%,pitchn) range = “x-low” | “low” | “medium” | “high” | “x-high” | “default” | relative change (unit : Hz) rate = “x-slow” | “slow” | “medium” | “fast” | “x-fast” | “default” | relative change duration = time interval (unit : s | ms) volume = “silent” | “x-soft” | “soft” | “medium” | “loud” | “x-loud” | “default” | relative change > child element </prosody> |
Attributes
| Attribute | Description |
| pitch | Pitch of the sound. optional field |
| contour | Contour of the sound pitch. optional field |
| range | Range of the sound. optional field |
| rate | Speaking rate. optional field |
| duration | Duration of the time it takes for the text to play. optional field |
| volume | Volume. optional field |
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
Contour/range/duration are not supported and will be disregarded.
The prosody attributes have characteristics described below.
| pitch | Absolute value | “x-high”, “high”, “medium”, “low”, “x-low”, “default” |
| Relative value | -99% ~ +99% | |
| Note | ||
| rate | Absolute value | “x-fast”, “fast”, “medium”, “slow”, “x-slow”, “default” or 0.5~4.0 (default: 1.0) |
| Relative value | -99% ~ +99% | |
| Note | ||
| volume | Absolute value | “silent”, “x-soft”, “soft”, “medium”, “loud”, “x-loud”, “default” or 0.0 ~ 100 (default: 50) |
| Relative value | -99 ~ +99 or -99% ~ +99% | |
| Note | +50 and +50% have the same meaning. | |
| * Any value lower than 0 is set to 0, and any value higher than 100 is set to 100. | ||
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"> <prosody pitch=”high” rate=”+50%”>Hello, World!</prosody> </speak> |