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@@ 1,5 1,7 @@
 **Wanted:** Guidance on creating a great audio theme. Maybe based on voice acting
 or public speaking theory.
+**Wanted:** Written descriptions of the various outcomes of properties. I.e,
+how does `speak-as: spell-out` differ from normal.
 
 Rhapsode still lets you apply CSS styles to your webpages, but since it outputs
 audio rather than video it supports a different set of CSS properties. This page


@@ 14,11 16,40 @@ Setting `speak: never` is not the same as setting `voice-volume: silent` as the
 latter still takes up the same ammount of time as it would've to read the text
 aloud.
 
+### Reference:
+#### `speak`
+Usage:
+  `speak: always`
+
+Valid Options:
+  - `always`
+  - `never`
+
+#### `speak-as`
+Usage:
+  `speak-as: spell-out`
+
+Valid options:
+  - `spell-out`
+  - `digits`
+  - `literal-punctuation`
+  - `no-punctuation`
+
 ## The Voice
 You can use the `voice-family` attribute to select a voice either by age/gender/variant
 or by it's name. Just like font-family this'll make a big difference to the "look"
 of your page.
 
+### Reference
+**Wanted: denote syntax and properly format list**
+#### `voice-family`
+Usage:
+  `voice-family: OPTIONS`
+
+- genders: male female neutral
+- ages: child young old
+
+
 ## Speaking Style
 You can alter the voice you choose by varying it's volume, rate, pitch, range,
 and stress. Doing so helps people pay attention, especially if it reinforces the


@@ 29,7 60,54 @@ All the speaking style properties provide keywords you can use instead of a
 number. In which case write a number after a keyword to represent an offset from
 that keyword.
 
-## The CSS Speech "Box Model"
+### Reference
+#### `voice-volume`
+Usage:
+  `voice-volume: medium -10dB`
+
+Valid keywords:
+  - `silent`
+  - `x-soft`
+  - `soft`
+  - `medium`
+  - `loud`
+  - `x-loud`
+  - `medium`
+
+#### `voice-rate`
+Usage:
+  `voice-rate: medium -10%`
+
+Valid keywords:
+  - `x-slow`
+  - `slow`
+  - `medium`
+  - `fast`
+  - `x-fast`
+
+#### `voice-pitch`
+Usage:
+  `voice-pitch: medium +10%`
+
+Valid keywords:
+  - `x-low`
+  - `low`
+  - `medium`
+  - `high`
+  - `x-high`
+
+
+#### `voice-stress`
+Usage:
+  `voice-stress: moderate`
+
+Valid keywords:
+  - `strong`
+  - `moderate`
+  - `none`
+  - `reduced`
+
+## Rests, Pauses, and Auditory Cues
 On either end of your text you can place an audio cue to identify it, and on
 either end of those you can insert additional silence. If two silences are
 directly adjacent, the smaller one will be removed.


@@ 40,6 118,20 @@ it's `pause`.
 The user agent stylesheet, for example, uses audio cues to indicate list bullets
 and links. And silence functions exactly like whitespace in a visual browser.
 
+
+### Reference
+> Note: `pause` and `rest` mirror functionality
+> Note: `-before` and `-after` are both offered by the api as well
+#### `pause`
+Usage:
+  `pause: before weak 50ms`
+
+Valid keywords:
+  - `x-weak`
+  - `weak`
+  - `medium`
+  - `strong
+
 ## Text Generation
 Rhapsode supports (some of) the same text generation attributes as visual
 browsers, namely: