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The break element

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Controls the pausing or other prosodic boundaries between tokens.

Refer to SSML 1.1 for further information.

Usage Example

<p>… </p>
<transition />
<ssml:break strength="strong" />        
<p>…</p>
    
<p>…</p>
<transition />
<ssml:break time="2s" />
<p>…</p>
    

Allowed parents

abbr, d:about, address, annoref, annotation (block variant), annotation (phrase variant), m:annotation-xml, aside (block variant), aside (toc variant), backcover, block, caption, citation (block variant), citation (phrase variant), code, d, definition, description, emph (phrase variant), emph (text variant), entry (toc variant), entry (index variant), entry (bibliography variant), entry (glossary variant), expansion, flaps, frontcover, xforms:group, h, hd, hpart, item, xforms:label, ln (code variant), ln (ln variant), lnum, d:longdesc, meta, name, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), noteref, num, object, sel:otherwise (Phrase variant), sel:otherwise (Block variant), p, ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, ref, xforms:repeat, its:rt, s, ssml:say-as (phrase variant), ssml:say-as (text variant), section, d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span (phrase variant), span (text variant), spine, sub, ssml:sub (phrase variant), ssml:sub (text variant), d:summary, sup, td, term, th, time, ssml:token (phrase variant), ssml:token (text variant), d:tour, w, sel:when (Phrase variant), sel:when (Block variant) and wpart

Allowed children

This element is empty

Content model

optional attributes: @strength, @time and @xml:id
This element is empty

Namespace

http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis