Indicates the strength of emphasis to be applied. Emphasis is indicated using a combination of pitch change, timing changes, loudness and other acoustic differences) that varies from one language to the next.
Name:
voice-stress
Value:
normal | strong | moderate | none | reduced
Initial:
normal
Applies to:
all elements
Inherited:
yes
Percentages:
N/A
Media:
speech
Computed value:
specified value
Syntax
voice-stress: normal | strong | moderate | none | reduced;
Values
normal
Represents the default emphasis produced by the speech synthesizer.
none
Prevents the synthesizer from emphasizing text it would normally emphasize.
moderate and strong
These values are monotonically non-decreasing in strength. Their application results in more emphasis than what the speech synthesizer would normally produce (i.e. more than the value corresponding to ‘normal‘).
