The <paragraph> tag tells the TTS engine to change the prosody to reflect the end of a paragraph, regardless of the surrounding punctuation.

The <paragraph> tag can be abbreviated as <p>.

Attributes

Name

Data type

Description

xml:lang

String

Can be set to “en_us” or “fr_fr”.

Notes

None

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
  <form>
    <block>
      <prompt>
        <paragraph>
          Here's one paragraph.
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph xml:lang="fr-CA">
          Voici un autre phrase en français.
        </paragraph>
      </prompt>
    </block>
  </form>
</vxml>

The output of the above script would be: (Note: This example uses Nuance RealSpeak 4.0 as the TTS Engine)

Computer: Here's one paragraph. Computer: (in French) Voici une phrase en français.

Child Tags

Parent Tags

<paragraph>