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Speaker Directives

As a sample of the use of some of these tags, consider the following example from a hypothetical e-mail reader that uses SABLE markup. Since e-mail readers have access to information about at least some structural aspects of the input -- e.g. header information about the sender, subject and date, this information can be used to control the synthesizer's behavior in useful ways.:

<DIV TYPE="paragraph">New e-mail from
<EMPH>Tom Jones</EMPH>
regarding
<PITCH BASE="high" RANGE="large">
<RATE SPEED="-20%">latest album</RATE>
</PITCH>.</DIV>
<AUDIO SRC="beep.aiff"/>

The subject information (``latest album'') is highlighted auditorily by setting a higher base pitch and larger pitch range, and by slowing down the speech by 20%. Finally, the header is terminated by an audible beep (``beep.aiff'').


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Richard Sproat
1998-11-16