<break>

Description

Specifies a pause in the speech output.

Syntax



<break
    time="time_interval"
    strength="none" | "x-weak" | "weak" | "medium" | "strong" | "x-strong" />

Attributes

Attribute

Description

time

Specifies an absolute pause in seconds or milliseconds. Optional (Only one of time and size can be defined).

strength

Specifies relative pause duration. The actual pause duration depends on TTS engine. Valid values are x-weak, extraweak, weak, medium, strong, x-strong, extrastrong. Optional. (Defaults to medium).

The duration of the pause is configurable by the setting vxmli.break.strength.xxxx, where xxxx is one of the valid values.

Parents

Audio Enumerate Foreach Paragraph Prompt Prosody Sentence Speak Voice

Children

None

Limitations/Restrictions

Refer to your vendor documentation for support details.
When possible, the Interpreter will execute the break, independent of the TTS engine.

Example

To include speech markup tags, insert the SSML tags inside one of the <prompt>, <audio>, <enumerate>, or <foreach> (within <prompt>) elements.



<prompt>
    Hello, <break size="large"/> world!
</prompt>