Re: Speech Synthesis - Length parameter

Jerry, you beat me to it. I am willing to implement this in Firefox.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Glen Shires <gshires@google.com> wrote:

> Yes, this is the proper place to discuss potential changes / errata to [1].
>
> Thank you for the proposal. We welcome others to comment on it on this
> mailing list.
>
> The next step would be for someone to propose specific wording for an
> errata item in the format of [2].
>
> Then after allowing several weeks for all to review / comment, if
> there's agreement, we can add it to the errata [2] and to the draft
> with errata [1]
>
> [1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/webspeechapi.html
> [2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi-errata.html
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
> wrote:
> > I support 'length' in SpeechSynthesisEvent and I'd be willing to
> implement
> > it in Chrome if there are no objections.
> >
> > On a larger note, it'd be great if we could revive discussions on this
> list
> > and update the spec based on the errata.
> >
> > - Dominic
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:59 PM Jerry Smith (WPT) <jdsmith@microsoft.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> We’ve implemented speech synthesis in Edge on the Windows 10 Anniversary
> >> Update, and have been revising it lately to support the word boundary
> >> features.  We have an internal partner that wants to use these.  They’ve
> >> also requested we support word “length”, which isn’t included in the
> >> community group Web Speech API Specification.  Knowing the length in
> >> addition to boundary makes it very simple to highlight text while it is
> >> being spoken.  We already support this in WinRT APIs, and would like to
> do
> >> the same on Edge.
> >>
> >> Our goal would be to receive equivalents to the following WinRT API
> events
> >> for both paragraphs and words:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> TimeSpan              StartTime       Position in the audio stream
> >>
> >>                                       Required by IMediaCue
> >>
> >> HSTRING               Text            Text of the bookmark.  For
> sentence
> >> and word boundary this can provide the text snippet from the original
> text.
> >>
> >>                                       Note: We do not have a strong
> >> requirement to support text for word and sentence boundary markers.
> >>
> >> Nullable<UINT32>      Offset          Offset in the input text
> associated
> >> with the current position in the audio playback.
> >>
> >>                                       This is not populated for SSML
> >> bookmarks.
> >>
> >> Nullable<UINT32>      Length          The length of the text starting
> from
> >> the Offset associated with the position in the audio playback.
> >>
> >>                                       This is not populated for SSML
> >> bookmarks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The existing speech API spec has been around for a while.  Is there a
> way
> >> to evaluate and process spec additions/edits?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Glen:  I’d appreciate hearing your take on this suggestion.  The Speech
> >> API community report dates to 2012.  Is there much interest in revising
> it
> >> in other ways?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jerry Smith
> >>
> >> Microsoft – Web Platform Team
>
>
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