Name

voice-family — NN n/a IE n/a CSS 2

Synopsis

Inherited: Yes

For aural style sheets, sets the voice family names the aural browser should try to use for speaking the content. Multiple, comma-delimited values are accepted. This feature is analogous to the font-family setting for visual browsers.

CSS Syntax

voice-family: voiceFamilyName [, voiceFamilyName  [, ...]]

Value

A voiceFamilyName may be the identifier for a voice type provided by the aural browser or a generic voice name (yet to be determined by the W3C). As with font-family settings, you should specify multiple voice types, starting with the more specific and ending with the most generic for the type of speech you want for the element’s content.

Initial Value

Depends on browser.

Applies To

All elements.

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