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CSS Aural media or style sheets are use to a combination of speech synthesis and a sound style features to a specific document elements to make the user listen to information instead of reading them. So, aural media is very useful for visually impaired people.
Aural media can be used:
Following is a list of aural media properties
Property | Explanation | Value |
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azimuth | This property is set where the sound should come from horizontally. | Angle left-side far-left left center-left center center-right right far-right right-side behind leftwardsrightwards |
cue | It is used to set the cue properties in shorthand (one declaration). | cue-beforecue-after |
cue-after | It is used to specify a sound to be played after speaking an element's content to delimit from other. | none url |
cue-before | It is used to specify a sound to be played before speaking an element's content to delimit it from other. | noneurl |
elevation | It is set where the sound should come from vertically. | angle below level above higherlower |
pause | It is used to set the pause properties in shorthand (one declaration). | pause-beforepause-after |
pause-after | It is used to observed a pause after speaking an element's content. | time % |
pause-before | It is used to observed a pause before speaking an element's content. | time % |
pitch | It is used to specify the pitch (a frequency) of the speaking voice. | frequency x-low low medium high x-high |
pitch-range | It is used to specify the variation in average pitch. It specifies that speaking voice is animated voice or monotone voice. | number |
play-during | It specifies a sound to be played as a background while an element's content is spoken. | auto none url mix repeat |
richness | It is used to specifies the sound quality (richness or brightness) of the speaking voice. | number |
speak | It specifies whether text will render aurally. | normal nonespell-out |
speak-header | It can be used to specify how to handle table headers. It is also specified that whether the headers be spoken before every cell, or only before a cell with a different header than the previous cell. | always once |
speak-numeral | It specifies to control how numerals are spoken. | digits continuous |
speak-punctuation | It is used to specify how punctuation are spoken | nonecode |
speech-rate | It specifies the rate of the speaking. It allowed both the speaking and relative keyword. | number x-slow slow medium fast x-fast fasterslower |
stress | It is used to specify the "stress" in the speaking voice or the height of the "Local peaks". | number |
voice-family | It specifies the voice family of the speaking voice and the value is comma separated. | specific-voice generic-voice |
volume | It specifies the medium volume of the speaking voice . | number % silent x-soft soft medium loud x-loud |