<voice>

<voice>

The <voice> tag allows the application to change the voice of the TTS speaker from the input text.

Attributes

Name	Data type	Description
gender	String	Accepts the following values: “male”, “female”, or “neutral”.
age	Integer	An integer value representing the age.
variant		This attribute is not supported.
name	String	Please see TTS Engine Characteristics for information on what names are available.
xml:lang	String	Please see TTS Engine Characteristics for information on what languages are available.

Notes

Default values are dependent on the voice selected at TTS daemon startup time. For more information, see TTS Engine Characteristics. NOTE: If using the <voice> tag with the <audio> tag, please keep in mind that the <voice> tag will need to be embedded within the <audio> tag for it to work properly.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
  <form>
    <block>
      <prompt>
        <voice name="crystal">
          Hi, I'm Crystal.
        </voice>
        <voice name="mike">
          Hi, I'm Mike.
        </voice>
      </prompt>
    </block>
  </form>
</vxml>

The output of the above script would be:

Computer: (in Crystal's voice) Hi, I'm Crystal. Computer: (in Mike's voice) Hi, I'm Mike.

Child Tags

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

Parent Tags

<audio>, <emphasis>, <enumerate>, <foreach>, <paragraph>, <prompt>, <prosody>, <sentence>, <speak>, <voice>