- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 18:14:05 +0100
- To: raman@mv.us.adobe.com (Raman T. V.)
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, Jim Miller <jmiller@martigny.ai.mit.edu>, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, jg@w3.org
Raman, > I'd like to bring up the issue of specifying (and designing) speech-specific > stylesheets for WWW pages. Indeed, one of the motivations for the work on style sheets is to allow non-visual rendering. > Next, I'd like to send out a first-cut list of parameters that such a "speech" > style sheet would allow. Thus, one would have ":voice normal" analogous to > ":fon-family times" etc. Exactly. In CSS terms this would be properties and corresponding values. Do you have an initial list of properties you need/want? My initial guess would be along the lines of: property values volume <db> | <number> pitch <Hz> | raised | lowered gender male | female | child affect sad | excited | .. In addition, some speech synthesisers come with "personalites" included, but they're probably a bit too "device-dependant" for a specification? I know nothing about the parameters involved in controlling braille devices. > At this point, I'd first like to get the specification right --discussed on > this list, beaten on etc etc-- > once we have something concrete, emacspeak will probably provide a reference > implementation. Great, I look forward to putting this into the specification. Regards, -h&kon Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France http://www.w3.org/People/howcome howcome@w3.org
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