- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:06:35 -0500
- To: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
Just to bring this new Working Draft to the attention of Wordnet/RDF folk. via http://www.w3.org/News/2004#item167 Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 Requirements http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-lexicon-reqs-20041029/ abstract: [[ The W3C Voice Browser Working Group aims to develop specifications to enable access to the Web using spoken interaction. This document is part of a set of requirements studies for voice browsers, and provides details of the requirements for markup used for specifying application specific pronunciation lexicons. Application specific pronunciation lexicons are required in many situations where the default lexicon supplied with a speech recognition or speech synthesis processor does not cover the vocabulary of the application. A pronunciation lexicon is a collection of words or phrases together with their pronunciations specified using an appropriate pronunciation alphabet. ]] In passing I note a 'should have' requirement we ought to watch: [[ 3.8 Metadata information (should have) The pronunciation lexicon markup should provide a mechanism for specifying metadata within pronunciation lexicon documents. This metadata can contain information about the document itself rather than document content. For example: record the purpose of the lexicon document, the author, etc. ]] For more on W3C's work in this area, see http://www.w3.org/TR/voice-intro/ "Introduction and Overview of W3C Speech Interface Framework" (from 2000) or the more actively maintained Voice Browser home page, http://www.w3.org/Voice/ If this stuff engages your interest, then http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml21/ "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1" is probably a good thing to review to get a sense of how those groups are addressing this area. Dan
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