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Neutral gender?

From: Roopa Trivedi <rotrived@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:29:24 -0800
To: <www-voice@w3.org>
Message-ID: <005701c3f67f$6cacf6a0$508e6b80@amer.cisco.com> 

Hi,
SSML 1.0 spec says that
 
"gender: optional attribute indicating the preferred gender of the voice
to speak the contained text. Enumerated values are: "male", "female",
"neutral""

Does this mean that "neutral" is yet another type of gender supported by
some TTS vendors? Or, does it mean that the user does not wish to
specify a gender and thus uses "neutral" to leave the gender selection
elsewhere.

Thanks,
Roopa
Received on Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:35:09 GMT

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