<audio>

<audio>

Retrieves and plays the specified audio file. If the audio file is unavailable, any enclosed text is sent to the TTS engine for speech synthesis instead.

Attributes

Name	Data type	Description
src	String	The URI of the audio prompt. See here for supported audio formats.
expr	String	The expression may be either a reference to audio previously recorded with the item or evaluate to the URI of an audio resource to fetch.
stream	String	The URI of an audio stream to play. Any queued audio is immediately cleared if an MP3 audio stream is opened.
fetchhint		This attribute is not supported.
fetchtimeout	String	(defaults to “fetchtimeout” global property value) The timeout for fetches. Must be specified with the appropriate time units (e.g., “120s” for 120 seconds).
maxage	String	(defaults to “audiomaxage” global property value) Tells the platform the maximum acceptable age, in seconds, of cached audio resources.
maxstale	String	(defaults to “audiomaxstale” global property value) Tells the platform the maximum acceptable staleness, in seconds, of expired cached audio resources.
maxtime	String	(defaults to unlimited) The maximum number of seconds of the audio prompt to play.
starttime	String	(defaults to “0s”) The number of seconds into the referenced audio prompt at which to begin playback.

Notes

The setting for the “src” attribute has priority over the setting for the “expr” attribute. If the wave file at the location specified by the “src” attribute can not be retrieved, the text within the “audio” tag will be read by the TTS engine.

Example

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
  <form>
    <block>
      <prompt>
        I'm going to play an audio file.
      </prompt>
      <audio src="http://nonexistent.domain.com/test.wav">
        Oops, the audio file could not be retrieved!
      </audio>
    </block>
  </form>
</vxml>

The output of the above script would be:

Computer: I'm going to play an audio file. Computer: (plays audio file if available)

Child Tags

<audio>, <break>, <desc>, <emphasis>, <enumerate>, <mark>, <p>, <paragraph>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <sentence>, <speak>, <sub>, <value>, <voice>

Parent Tags

<audio>, <block>, <catch>, <emphasis>, <enumerate>, <error>, <field>, <filled>, <foreach>, <help>, <if>, <initial>, <menu>, <noinput>, <nomatch>, <paragraph>, <prompt>, <prosody>, <record>, <sentence>, <speak>, <subdialog>, <transfer>, <voice>