At 07:07 PM 1/10/97 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote: >Yes, it is worth stressing that language is a much more important >tag or attribute when using speech synthesis. It is easy to tell >que j'ecrire en Français pour un peu, and then switch to back to >English. A speech synth would get very confused without explicit markup. That's not really a good assumption. Morphological analyzers have very little trouble identifying languages. It's a lot easier to toss the text against something that'll automatically recognize it than to expect writers and editors to insert such tags. A standard set of tags is a good idea, but one shouldn't assume that a lot of this can't be automated and reviewed by humans. Nick --------------------------------------- Verity Inc. Connecting People with Information Product Manager, Categorization and Visualization 408-542-2164; home office 408-369-1233; fax 408-541-1600 http://www.verity.comReceived on Friday, 10 January 1997 14:14:08 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 27 April 2009 13:53:46 GMT