- From: Dan Burnett <dburnett@voxeo.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:27:57 -0500
- To: www-voice@w3.org
The SSML subgroup of the Voice Browser Working Group held its eighth meeting by teleconference on January 15-17, 2008. The meeting included attendees by IBM, iFlyTek, France Telecom, Loquendo, and Voxeo. The primary goals of this meeting were to review and address any outstanding change requests, review and address any comments from public reviewers of the fourth Working Draft, to make progress on the Pronunciation Alphabet Registry, and to prepare for the Last Call Working Draft. We clarified that marks used in the new "startmark" and "endmark" attributes of <speak> must be unique within the document; also, to be consistent with the other attributes of <prosody>, the effect of the <prosody> "duration" attribute now applies clearly only to text content. We reverted the name of the registry to be the "Pronunciation Alphabet Registry" and after discussion with W3C leaders decided that IANA would be a better hosting entity than W3C. We reviewed our draft registration policy, including how one would request a new registry entry and the information that needs to be stored in the registry. We expect to do more review over the next month. We confirmed that the <audio> element will have a "speed" attribute and no "pitchcorrect" attribute but made some minor wording changes to ensure that future pitch control attributes could be added without conflict. We are now having weekly teleconferences to work on issues that arise and to track progress on the remaining IR assertions and tests. We expect to publish a Last Call Working Draft of the specification before our next meeting. Our next meeting will be held in Beijing, China, from April 22-24. Daniel C. Burnett and 双志伟 (Zhi Wei Shuang) Co-chairs, Speech Synthesis Subgroup, VBWG
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