"s" Element

Description

Regards the text surrounded with tags as a sentence.

Syntax

<s
  xml:lang = "locale">
  child elements
</s>

Attributes

Parent

<audio>, <p>, <prosody>, <speak>, <voice>

Children

<audio>, <break>, <emphasis>, <mark>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <sub>, <voice>, #TEXT, #CDATA-SECTION

Limitations/Restrictions

Regardless of punctuation marks, a pause (466 ms) is inserted at the beginning and end of the text to define the boundaries of a sentence.

If the specified xml:lang value does not exist, the attribute is ignored.

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">

  <p>
    <s>This is the first sentence of the paragraph.</s>
    <s>Here's another sentence.</s>
  </p>
</speak>