[Bug 10320] [WebSRT voice] Allow an arbitrary string as the voice for forwards compatilbity

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10320

--- Comment #16 from Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> 2010-10-13 08:50:29 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > (In reply to comment #9)
> > > I very rarely, if ever, see captions (i.e. tracks for the hard of hearing) with
> > > names in the tracks, so I'm not sure it's a critical issue. But I don't mind
> > > making it possible in the future to use the voice name in the rendering (or to
> > > make the rendering be based on the voice name).
> > 
> > I discussed this with two of the HoH participants at the aforementioned summit.
> > Specifically, I asked how multiple speakers are typically represented. As far
> > as I understand from the discussion, using different colors or positioning
> > close to the speaker isn't very common at all, and also something they weren't
> > big fans of. Both said that prefixing with the speaker name is quite fine, but
> > I don't have any insight into how common it is. Perhaps it's only done when
> > it's needed for off-screen speakers, and would be annoying if done for every
> > single cue. I could follow up on this if it matters to the design of some
> > feature.
> >
> 
> Note that this is a US-specific and a HoH-specific viewpoint.

Also note that in the time I spent in the US after this, I watched TV with
captions in the hotel a bit, and using positioning was actually very common,
mostly with the text being aligned left, center or right, depending on speaker.

So, I shouldn't draw any big conclusions about anything.

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Received on Wednesday, 13 October 2010 08:50:31 UTC