The speech-rate property is used only in Aural Stylesheets.
The aural rendering of a document combines sounds and voices to go through the content of a document. Aural presentation occurs often by converting the document to plain text and then feeding this to a screen reader.
Situations and markets for listening to information could be:
The speech-rate property specifies how fast the text should be read - the speaking rate.
Value | Description |
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number | A number that specifies the speaking rate in words per minute |
x-slow | 80 words per minute |
slow | 120 words per minute |
medium | Default. 180-200 words per minute |
fast | 300 words per minute |
x-fast | 500 words per minute |
faster | Current speech-rate + 40 |
slower | Current speech-rate - 40 |