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"prosody" Element
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<prosody>
Description
Designates the prosodic attributes (pitch, speed, volume) of the text surrounded with tags.
Syntax
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<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>
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Attributes
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Attribute
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Description
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pitch
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Pitch of the sound. optional field
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contour
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Contour of the sound pitch. optional field
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range
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Range of the sound. optional field
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rate
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Speaking rate. optional field
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duration
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Duration of the time it takes for the text to play. optional field
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volume
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Volume. optional field
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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.
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pitch
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Absolute value
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“x-high”, “high”, “medium”, “low”, “x-low”, “default”
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Relative value
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-99% ~ +99%
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Note
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rate
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Absolute value
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“x-fast”, “fast”, “medium”, “slow”, “x-slow”, “default” or 0.5~4.0 (default: 1.0)
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Relative value
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-99% ~ +99%
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Note
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volume
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Absolute value
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“silent”, “x-soft”, “soft”, “medium”, “loud”, “x-loud”, “default” or 0.0 ~ 100 (default: 50)
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Relative value
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-99 ~ +99 or -99% ~ +99%
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Note
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+50 and +50% have the same meaning.
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* Any value lower than 0 is set to 0, and any value higher than 100 is set to 100. |
Example
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<?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>
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