VoiceXML Tag <voice> Version 2.0

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VoiceXML Tag
<voice>

TTS voice.

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> <p> <paragraph> <phoneme> <prosody> <s> <say-as> <sentence> <value> <voice>

Attributes

Name	Req/opt	Default	Valid values
age	Optional		Text
category	Optional		"adult" "child" "elder" "teenager"
gender	Optional		"female" "male" "neutral"
name	Optional		Text
variant	Optional		Text

Compatibility
VoiceXML 1.0 No, 2.0 Yes.

Description
The <voice> tag specifies attributes of the synthesized voice.

If an attribute is not specified, the value remains as it was previously set, it is not reset to a default. The new values apply to all the text enclosed within the tag (unless overridden by a nested <voice> tag) and then reverts to the previous values when the end tag is reached.

VoiceXML browsers are not obligated to fully implement all speech markup tags, however, a compliant browser must silently ignore any tags it does not support, and should make its best efforts to map any unimplemented mark-up to something similar that is supported.