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# \<break>

## \<break> <a href="#break" id="break"></a>

The \<break> tag instructs the TTS engine to insert a pause in the synthesized text.

### Attributes

<table><thead><tr><th width="176.33333333333331">Name</th><th width="167">Data type<select><option value="495570bf7d6543f6b5aeef00b0907adc" label="String" color="blue"></option><option value="a39f58fd7c83431c935e0de94878b070" label="Integer" color="blue"></option><option value="8d553288fa5a4ce59cc24a6cc3a54f75" label="Boolean" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>size</td><td><span data-option="495570bf7d6543f6b5aeef00b0907adc">String</span></td><td>Can be one of four possible settings: “none”, “small”, “medium”, or “large”.</td></tr><tr><td>time</td><td><span data-option="495570bf7d6543f6b5aeef00b0907adc">String</span></td><td>A duration of time specified with the appropriate measurement (e.g., 300ms for three hundred milliseconds).</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Notes

Without attributes, a \<break> tag will insert a default-length brief break in the text.

### Example

```markup
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
  <form>
    <block>
      <prompt>
        Let's have a moment of silence.
        <break time="5s"/>
        Okay. All done.
      </prompt>
    </block>
  </form>
</vxml>
```

The output of the above script would be:

> Computer: Let's have a moment of silence.\
> Computer: (5 seconds of silence)\
> Computer: Okay. All done.

### Child Tags

None

### Parent Tags

[\<audio>](/dev/voicexml/tags/audio-tag.md), [\<emphasis>](/dev/voicexml/tags/emphasis-tag.md), [\<enumerate>](/dev/voicexml/tags/enumerate-tag.md), [\<foreach>](/dev/voicexml/tags/foreach-tag.md), [\<paragraph>](/dev/voicexml/tags/paragraph-tag.md), [\<prompt>](/dev/voicexml/tags/prompt-tag.md), [\<prosody>](/dev/voicexml/tags/prosody-tag.md), [\<sentence>](/dev/voicexml/tags/sentence-tag.md), [\<speak>](/dev/voicexml/tags/speak-tag.md), [\<voice>](/dev/voicexml/tags/voice-tag.md)