Re: Text to Speech proposal

I looks like the current Media Fragments URI 1.0 Working Draft does not
allow for ranges between named points. It only allows time ranges and named
sections. So we would have to define our own fragment format, e.g.
"#mark=startmark[,endmark]".

/Bjorn

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Bjorn Bringert <bringert@google.com> wrote:

> Using media URI fragments sounds reasonable.
>
> /Bjorn
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Marc Schroeder <marc.schroeder@dfki.de>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On 05.11.10 11:52, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
>>
>>> * It could also be useful to allow starting from a given point without
>>> scripting by allowing a URI fragment in the src attribute value. This
>>> would allow the user agent to buffer from the correct point when
>>> autobuffer is set.
>>>
>>
>> It seems to me that SSML <mark>s and XML/HTML fragment IDs don't really
>> play well together. (The SSML mark example in the proposed spec also
>> reflects that.)
>>
>> SSML <mark> is a point-based notation (from mark A to mark B); URI
>> fragment is a node notation (node X).
>>
>> In the example that Milan pointed out, it would be nice to be able to say
>> "play from mark A to mark B", but using src to point to a fragment of the
>> SSML document allows us only to point to a node X in that document.
>>
>> What it would be nice to have is something like using the Media Fragment
>> URI mechanism [1] for <audio>, where you could say:
>>
>> <audio src="http://example.com/file.wav#t=3,10">
>>
>> in order to refer to the stretch of the audio file from second 3 to second
>> 10.
>>
>>
>> I don't know for the syntax, but conceptually it would be nice to be able
>> to say something like,
>>
>> <tts src="text.ssml#section=A,B">
>>
>> where text.ssml contains <mark name="A"/> and <mark name="B"/>.
>>
>> Best,
>> Marc
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/
>>
>>
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