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Text Markup


SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language

The following markup tags and attributes are recognised:

<speak>

  • xml:base (the value is just passed back as a parameter with the UriCallback() function)
  • xml:lang

<voice>

  • xml:lang
  • name
  • age
  • variant
  • gender

<prosody>

  • rate
  • volume
  • pitch
  • range

<say-as>

  • interpret-as="characters"
  • interpret-as="characters" format="glyphs"
  • interpret-as="tts:key"
  • interpret-as="tts:char"
  • interpret-as="tts:digits"

<mark> name

<s>

  • xml:lang

<p>

  • xml:lang

<sub> alias

<tts:style>

  • field="punctuation" mode=none,all,some
  • field="capital_letters" mode=no,spelling,icon,pitch

<audio> src

<emphasis>

  • level

<break>

  • strength
  • time

HTML

eSpeak can speak HTML text directly, or text containing both SSML and HTML markup.
Any unrecognised tags are ignored.

The following tags case a sentence break.
<br> <dd> <li> <img> <td>

The following tags case a paragraph break.
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <hr>

Text between the following tags is ignored.
<script> ... </script>
<style> ... </style>