VoiceXML 2.1 Development Guide

<phoneme> element

The phoneme element essentially allows the developer to specify a phoenetic pronounciation for any TTS nested within.Do note that SSML tags are ignored by some of the available TTS engines, while some engines use their own non-compliant markup. Check the Text-To-Speech appendices for additional details.

usage

attributes

alphabet	Data Type: CDATA	Default: Optional
	The alphabet attribute denotes the phoenetic alphabet to be used. The possible choices are: ipa -- International Phoenetic Alphabet worldbet -- Worldbet (Postscript) phonetic alphabet xsampa -- X-SAMPA phoenetic alphabet
ph	Data Type: CDATA	Default: Required
	The ph attribute specifies the phoneme string to be used.

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additional links

W3C SSML 1.0 Specification

ANNOTATIONS: EXISTING POSTS

kettle

1/24/2007 2:30 AM (EST)

I'd be really greatful if there were a couple of examples utilizing this tag here.

MattHenry

1/24/2007 2:36 PM (EST)

Hi there,

I should be clear in the fact that the hosted Voxeo VXML platforms do not currently support phoneme. However, you may find a useful workaround by employing the <sub> element:

<prompt>
this message brough to you by the
<sub alias="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</sub>
</prompt>

Hope this helps!

~Matthew henry