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VoiceXML Tag
 <emphasis>

Emphasize speech.

Parent Tags
<audio> <choice> <emphasis> <enumerate> <p> <paragraph> <prompt> <prosody> <s> <sentence> <voice>

Content Syntax
The value may be empty, or may contain one or more elements, where an element is either parsed text or one of the following tags.

<audio> <break> <emphasis> <enumerate> <mark> <phoneme> <prosody> <say-as> <value> <voice>

Attributes
Name Req/opt Default Valid values
level Optional "moderate" "moderate" "none" "reduced" "strong"

Compatibility
VoiceXML 1.0 No, 2.0 Yes.

Description
Requests a specific level of emphasis (weight or stress) of the synthesized speech which is generated from the text enclosed within the tag.
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