# \<sentence>

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

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

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

### Attributes

<table><thead><tr><th width="186.33333333333331">Name</th><th width="181">Data type<select><option value="0d62350dadec4dde9791448c978c91b6" label="String" color="blue"></option><option value="fce8edaa5f6f4d79a2aa7daffe9947cb" label="Integer" color="blue"></option><option value="84390e2aa4944e25a504ae22ac9d4f51" label="Boolean" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>xml:lang</td><td><span data-option="0d62350dadec4dde9791448c978c91b6">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>
        <sentence>
          Here's one sentence.
        </sentence>
        <sentence xml:lang="fr-CA">
          Voici un autre phrase en français.
        </sentence>
      </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 sentence.\
> Computer: (in French) Voici une phrase en français.

### Child Tags

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

### Parent Tags

[\<audio>](/dev/voicexml/tags/audio-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), [\<speak>](/dev/voicexml/tags/speak-tag.md), [\<voice>](/dev/voicexml/tags/voice-tag.md)


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