CSS voice reference
Aural style sheets used in conjunction speech synthesis and sound effects, allowing users to listen to information, instead of reading the information.
Sound display can be used:
- Blind
- To help users learn to read
- Helps users having problems reading
- family entertainment
- on the car
Hearing will usually render the document is converted to plain text, and then passed to the screen reader (read out a program that all of the characters on the screen).
An example of auditory stylesheet:
h1, h2, h3, h4
{
voice-family: male;
richness: 80;
cue-before: url ( "beep.au")
}
{
voice-family: male;
richness: 80;
cue-before: url ( "beep.au")
}
The above example with speech synthesizer play a sound, there is the beginning of a male voice.
CSS Reference Manual Voice
CSS "column indicates in which CSS properties defined (CSS1 or CSS2).
Property | Description | Values | CSS |
---|---|---|---|
azimuth | Setting the sound should come from | angle left-side far-left left center-left center center-right right far-right right-side behind leftwards rightwards | 2 |
cue | Setting cue properties in one declaration | cue-before cue-after | 2 |
cue-after | Specifies Sound to play back content in an element | none url | 2 |
cue-before | Specifies a sound to play in front of a content element | none url | 2 |
elevation | Setting the sound should come from | angle below level above higher lower | 2 |
pause | Setting pause attribute in a statement | pause-before pause-after | 2 |
pause-after | After the contents of an element, specify the pause | time % | 2 |
pause-before | Before the content of an element, specify the pause | time % | 2 |
pitch | Specifies the speech sound | frequency x-low low medium high x-high | 2 |
pitch-range | Specifies change the speech sound. (Sound or dynamic sound monotonous?) | number | 2 |
play-during | Specifies to read the content of an element when you want to play the sound | auto none url mix repeat | 2 |
richness | Specifies rich speech sounds. (Rich voice or thin voice?) | number | 2 |
speak | Specifies whether the content will be provided aurally | normal none spell-out | 2 |
speak-header | This property sets or retrieves the table header before all cells utterance, or to a non-cell associated therewith ended audible. | always once | 2 |
speak-numeral | How to pronounce set or retrieve a number. | digits continuous | 2 |
speak-punctuation | Sets or retrieves how to pronounce punctuation characters | none code | 2 |
speech-rate | Designated utterance speed | number x-slow slow medium fast x-fast faster slower | 2 |
stress | Speech sounds in the designated place "accent" | number | 2 |
voice-family | Sets or retrieves the current sound type | specific-voice generic-voice | 2 |
volume | The statement specified volume | number % silent x-soft soft medium loud x-loud | 2 |