Q5416 How do I make my HTML document speak using ACSS?

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Q5416 How do I make my HTML document speak using ACSS?

The aural rendering of a document, commonly used by the blind and print-impaired communities, occurs by converting the document to plain text and feeding this to a screen reader - software or hardware, that simply reads all the characters on the screen.

Besides the obvious accessibility advantages, there are other large markets for listening to information, including in-car use, industrial and medical documentation systems, home entertainment, perhaps it could even work nicely with a phone.

Consider the following example:

H1 {
   voice-family: Romeo, male
    }
P {
   voice-family: Juliet, female
    }

All H1 tags will then be read by a male voice, and P tags will be read by a female voice.