[csswg-drafts] New needs for new goals (#13396)

LaurenceZaysser has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== New needs for new goals ==
[1. Introduction, design goals](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-speech-1/#intro)

At the end of the first §, you may add that born accessible eBooks (=> well structured for TTS) can be dynamically converted into **audioBooks**. AudioBooks are very popular today, but every published title **cannot benefit of a doubled digital production** requiring a prerecorded actor's voice. Incidentally, audiobooks are **not accessible** to every audience (hard of hearing), while ebooks are born accessible and respect eventual accessibilty legal obligations.

At the begining of the second §, you may add that **voice synthesis** can tuned by the readers thanks to TTS **user preferences** (from the OS / the reading system). But user styling will apply to all content **indiscriminately**. **Some contents** though require to be specificaly styled to offer a better aural reading experience (ex: dialogs may require to change the age / gender / pitch of characters' voice ; untitled novel sections may require cues mark them aurally). CSS Speech is precisely designed to drive TTS by the **authors** from the **content**.

At the end of the second §, you may add that, as for _visual rendering_, _audio rendering_ can be defined **once** in a stylesheet whose styles (**combining** diverse aural properties sometimes) in the CCS speech, and then **applied to different parts** of the editorial content, to facilitate aural styling implementation (creation and maintenance).
Nota: the W3C _prononciation group_ does not seem to know the interest of CSS factorization
[Explainer: Improving Spoken Presentation on the Web](https://w3c.github.io/pronunciation/explainer/) (last version 27 October 2025)
[Ticket #99 Motivation for SSML in HTML over CSS](https://github.com/w3c/pronunciation/issues/99)

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