Request to help decide a W3C pronunciation standard technology

Dear Pronunciation TF:

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stakeholders.

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Dear Colleagues:

You may recall that the Pronunciation Task Force in W3C/WAI s been working toward defining a normative specification to allow web content developers to reliably specify the correct pronunciation of a span of content for users who rely on TTS across platform and browser environments. We have now reached a pivotal point in our work where we need to decide between one of two candidate markup approaches.

We are writing you today to request your participation in a one-hour teleconference to close on the technical approach we will adopt and promote to a W3C standard for pronunciation. We propose to hold this conversation on Wednesday 22 or Wednesday 29 July at 10:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time (-4:00 UTC). Please let us know whether either (or both) of these dates work for you. You can confirm the time in your local timezone here:

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Pronunciation+Task+Force&iso=20200722T10&p1=43&ah=1

While our Task Force has previously surveyed (and successfully implemented) an attribute approach model, we have not yet reached consensus that this model is preferable to an in line SSML approach.  Since W3C process requires we achieve consensus among stakeholders on the approach we propose for standardization, we would like to revisit the arguments for and against each approach one more time with our key stakeholders in order to reach a group consensus on the best approach for controlling pronunciation from TTS engines in those situations where unambiguously correct pronunciation can be critical to end users.

To refresh on our work the following documents will be helpful:

Explainer: https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-explainer/

Additional background documents (including a Gap Analysis) available on our Pronunciation Task Force Home Page:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/

Thanking you in advance,

Irfan Ali,Facilitator
Pronunciation Task Force

Janina Sajka & Becky Gibson, Co-Chairs
Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)



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Janina Sajka
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Thursday, 9 July 2020 17:01:18 UTC