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Text Markup
SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language
The following markup tags and attributes are recognised:
<speak>
- xml:base (the value is just passed back as a parameter with the UriCallback() function)
- xml:lang
<voice>
- xml:lang
- name
- age
- variant
- gender
<prosody>
- rate
- volume
- pitch
- range
<say-as>
- interpret-as="characters"
- interpret-as="characters" format="glyphs"
- interpret-as="tts:key"
- interpret-as="tts:char"
- interpret-as="tts:digits"
<mark> name
<s>
- xml:lang
<p>
- xml:lang
<sub> alias
<tts:style>
- field="punctuation" mode=none,all,some
- field="capital_letters" mode=no,spelling,icon,pitch
<audio> src
<emphasis>
- level
<break>
- strength
- time
HTML
eSpeak can speak HTML text directly, or text containing both SSML and HTML markup.
Any unrecognised tags are ignored.
The following tags case a sentence break.
<br> <dd> <li> <img> <td>
The following tags case a paragraph break.
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <hr>
Text between the following tags is ignored.
<script> ... </script>
<style> ... </style>