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Aural style sheets use a combination of speech synthesis and sound effects to make the user listen to information, instead of reading information.
by blind people to help users learning to read to help users who have reading problems for home entertainment in the car by print-impaired communities
The aural presentation converts the document to plain text and feed this to a screen reader (a program that reads all the characters on the screen).An example of an Aural style sheet:
@media aural {h1, h2, h3, h4
{
voice-family: male;
richness: 80;Formula
cue - before: url("beep.au")}
}The example above will make the speech synthesizer play a sound, then speak the headers in a very rich male voice.
The aural CSS media type is deprecated.
Sets where the sound should come from angle left-side far-left left center-left center center-right right far-right right-side behind leftwards rightwards cue
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Sets the cue properties in one declaration cue - before cue - after cue - after
Specifies a sound to be played after speaking an element's content none url cue - beforeSpecifies a sound to be played before speaking an element's content none url elevation Sets where the sound should come from angle below level above higher lower pause
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Sets the pause properties in one declaration pause - before pause - after pause - afterSpecifies a pause after speaking an element's content time %
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pause - beforeSpecifies a pause before speaking an element's content time % pitch
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Specifies the speaking voice frequency x - low low medium high x - high pitch - rangeSpecifies the variation in the speaking voice. (Monotone voice or animated voice?)
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number play - duringSpecifies a sound to be played while speaking an element's content auto none url mix repeat richness Specifies the richness of the speaking voice. (Rich voice or thin voice?) number speak
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Specifies whether content will render aurally normal none spell - out speak - headerSpecifies how to handle table headers. Should the headers be spoken before every cell, or only before a cell with a different header than the previous cell always once speak-numeral
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Specifies how to speak numbers digits continuous speak - punctuation
Specifies how to speak punctuation characters none code speech - rate
Specifies the speed of the speaking number x - slow slow medium fast x - fast faster slower stress
Specifies the "stress" in the speaking voice number voice - family
Specifies the voice family of the speaking specific - voice generic - voice volume%
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silent x - soft soft medium loud x - loud