# \<paragraph>

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

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

{% hint style="info" %}
The `<paragraph>` tag can be abbreviated as `<p>`.
{% endhint %}

### Attributes

<table><thead><tr><th width="161.33333333333331">Name</th><th width="154">Data type<select><option value="3e89c20b26f34bc080e2fd603ccceaa4" label="String" color="blue"></option><option value="dfb6c2e4b3f447a1bed89f4e8871ac90" label="Integer" color="blue"></option><option value="655092067ca245759a89e69209e92778" label="Boolean" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>xml:lang</td><td><span data-option="3e89c20b26f34bc080e2fd603ccceaa4">String</span></td><td>Can be set to “en_us” or “fr_fr”.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Notes

None

### Example

```markup
<?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

[\<audio>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/audio-tag), [\<break>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/break-tag), [\<emphasis>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/emphasis-tag), [\<enumerate>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/enumerate-tag), [\<mark>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/mark-tag), [\<phoneme>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/phoneme-tag), [\<prosody>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/prosody-tag), [\<say-as>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/say-as-tag), [\<sentence>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/sentence-tag), [\<speak>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/speak-tag), [\<sub>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/sub-tag), [\<value>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/value-tag), [\<voice>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/voice-tag)

### Parent Tags

[\<audio>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/audio-tag), [\<enumerate>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/enumerate-tag), [\<foreach>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/foreach-tag), [\<prompt>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/prompt-tag), [\<prosody>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/prosody-tag), [\<speak>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/speak-tag), [\<voice>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/voice-tag)