Re: EPUB 3 text to speech enhancements 1.0- Pronunciation - FYI

Hi Irfan,

I believe we discussed it at this week's call. We are seeking to have a
chat with the EPUB folks during TPAC.

JF

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 7:22 PM Ali, Irfan <iali@ets.org> wrote:

> The following document has been published by the EPUB Working group. It
> appears to reflect prior EPUB work rather than new work.
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-tts-10/
>
> The APA Working Group’s spoken presentation and pronunciation effort is
> acknowledged as work in progress.
>
>
>
> The Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/> [Spoken-HTML
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-tts-10/#bib-spoken-html>] is another
> initiative in W3C to bring SSML to HTML. It is still too early to
> determine what effect, if any, it will have on this document. The Working
> Group will monitor the work and future updates to this Note will reflect
> any impact it has on Text-to-Speech rendering in EPUB
>
>
>
> @John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> Are you aware of this development?
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> *Irfan Ali*
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> Principal A11Y Engineer
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> *Co-Chair*, Pronunciation Task Force :
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/
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