The p and s elements mark the paragraph and sentence structure of the document.
Syntax
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<p xml:lang="string"> </p> <s xml:lang="string"> </s> |
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Optional. Specifies the language to be used for the enclosed text. The value may contain only a lower-case, two-letter language code, (such as "en" for English or "it" for Italian) or may optionally include an upper-case, country/region or other variation in addition to the language code. Examples with a county/region code include "es-US" for Spanish as spoken in the US, or "fr-CA" for French as spoken in Canada. See the Remarks section for additional information. |
Remarks
Use of these elements is optional. The speech engine automatically determines the structure of the document in the absence of these elements. A speech synthesis engine may produce changes in prosody when it encounters a p or s element.
The Microsoft Speech Platform SDK 11 accepts all valid language-country codes as values for the xml:lang attribute. For a given language code specified in the xml:lang attribute, a speech synthesis engine that supports that language code must be installed to correctly pronounce words in the specified language.
If the xml:lang attribute specifies only a language code, (such as "en" for English or "es" for Spanish), and not a country/region code, then any installed speech synthesis voice that expresses support for that generic, region-independent language may produce acceptable pronunciations for words in the specified language. See Language Identifier Constants and Strings for a comprehensive list of language codes.
The paragraph and sentence elements may declare different languages in their xml:lang attributes than the language declared in the speak element. The Speech Platform SDK 11 supports multiple languages in SSML documents.
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The Microsoft Speech Platform Runtime 11 and Speech Platform SDK 11 do not include any engines for speech synthesis in a specific language. You must download a language pack (an engine for speech synthesis in a specific language) for each language in which you want to generate synthesized speech. See InstalledVoice for more information. |
Example
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<speak version="1.0"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis"
xml:lang="en-US">
<p>
<s> Introducing the sentence element. </s>
<s> It may be used to mark individual sentences. </s>
</p>
<p>
Another simple paragraph.
Sentence structure in this paragraph is not explicitly marked.
</p>
</speak>
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