- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:48:07 +0300
- To: "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Matt Morgan-May" <mattmay@adobe.com>, "HTML Working Group" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On May 14, 2008, at 23:33, Gez Lemon wrote: >> I would hope detecting what strings take very long to speak or that >> don't >> appear to contain words from a dictionary is something that AT >> vendors >> wouldn't need external advice on. > > That isn't how screen readers work. Screen readers work by converting > text into phonemes that they can then synthesise and output to the > user. This approach is obviously a lot quicker and more flexible than > containing a static list of dictionary entries. Whether the speech synthesis is dictionary based is not the point. The point is, can a screen reader reasonable have *a* dictionary for its speech language. In many cases, the platform provides spell checking, so a screen reader could test if a string spell checks successfully to make a guess if speaking it will be any good. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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