voice-stress property CSS Reference



Definition and Usage

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').

reduced

Effectively the opposite of emphasizing a word.


Examples

.default-emphasis { voice-stress: normal; }
.lowered-emphasis { voice-stress: reduced; }
.removed-emphasis { voice-stress: none; }
.normal-emphasis { voice-stress: moderate; }
.huge-emphasis { voice-stress: strong; }

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