Meeting Minutes Pronunciation Task Force Teleconference - 2021-01-20

The meeting minutes generated page is a 404, so I preserved the log from my
IRC:

[10:02] <paul_grenier> zakim, agenda?
[10:02] <Zakim> I see 4 items remaining on the agenda:
[10:02] <Zakim> 1. Agenda Review & Announcements [from Irfan]
[10:02] <Zakim> 2. Editor Draft updates
https://w3c.github.io/pronunciation/technical-approach/ [from Irfan]
[10:02] <Zakim> 3. Taskforce updates and proposed approach to Shadi [from
Irfan]
[10:02] <Zakim> 4. Other Business [from Irfan]
[10:02] == janina [~janina@public.cloak] has joined #pronunciation
[10:02] <janina> present+
[10:02] <paul_grenier> trackbot, start meeting
[10:02] * trackbot is preparing a teleconference.
[10:02] <trackbot> RRSAgent, make logs public
[10:02] <RRSAgent> I have made the request, trackbot
[10:02] <trackbot> Meeting: Spoken Pronunciation Task Force Teleconference
[10:02] <trackbot> Date: 20 January 2021
[10:02] <paul_grenier> zakim, who is here?
[10:02] <Zakim> Present: IrfanA, paul_grenier, Roy, Dee, janina, JF, Irfan
[10:02] <Zakim> On IRC I see janina, Dee, becky, paul_grenier, shadi,
RRSAgent, Irfan, Roy, MichaelC, Zakim, trackbot
[10:03] <paul_grenier> scribe: paul_grenier
[10:03] * becky Dee, I barely heard you ask if we could hear you now
[10:03] <paul_grenier> zakim, next item
[10:03] <Zakim> agendum 1 -- Agenda Review & Announcements -- taken up
[from Irfan]
[10:03] == SteveNoble_ [~SteveNoble@ef89345d.public.cloak] has joined #
pronunciation
[10:03] <becky> present+
[10:03] <SteveNoble_> present+
[10:03] == mhakkinen [~mhakkinen@ef89345d.public.cloak] has joined #
pronunciation
[10:04] <paul_grenier> zakim, take up item 3
[10:04] <Zakim> agendum 3 -- Taskforce updates and proposed approach to
Shadi -- taken up [from Irfan]
[10:04] <shadi> present+
[10:05] <Dee> present+
[10:06] <paul_grenier> janina: we have a couple of approaches and we expect
to have some implementations to help us get to CR.
[10:07] <paul_grenier> janina: we need to defend our timeline, we're doing
this because we have to reach our goals.
[10:07] <paul_grenier> janina: our charter will need to bring up WHATWG and
speak to the impact to our timeline.
[10:08] <paul_grenier> irfan: we were talking about a plugin architecture
and a screen reader plugin as an option for implementation.
[10:08] <paul_grenier> janina: we've heard from everyone on the screen
reader side, they don't want to parse the HTML.
[10:08] == JF [~JF@ef89345d.public.cloak] has joined #pronunciation
[10:09] <JF> Present+
[10:09] <paul_grenier> janina: which means the axtree must be updated
(browser).
[10:09] <Roy> https://www.w3.org/2021/01/13-pronunciation-minutes.html#t02
[10:09] <paul_grenier> roy: last week we discussed how Shadi could help us
find some cooperation to talk about this.
[10:10] <paul_grenier> janina: the EU specifically has 22 languages and
probably a bigger problem for pronunciation. If any help we can get with
connecting, implementing, or funding implementation will move us forward.
[10:12] <paul_grenier> shadi: the EU unit responsible for accessibility and
multilingualism is the same. Lots of intersections between them. The short
time frame is a problem.
[10:13] <paul_grenier> shadi: we just started an easy-funded project to
look at gaps in technology and we could add this (pronunciation) and take a
look at implementation but it wouldn't be an implementation per se and not
be faster than a year from now.
[10:14] <paul_grenier> shadi: will you have a minimal set of test cases or
examples that we can show how AT misreads content.
[10:14] <paul_grenier> shadi: this will attract interest and developers you
need to do the implementations.
[10:14] <paul_grenier> mark: we have examples and a gap analysis document.
[10:15] <JF> Q+
[10:15] * Zakim sees JF on the speaker queue
[10:15] <paul_grenier> janina: we're just short of a first public working
draft, so we're not that far off.
[10:15] <paul_grenier> ack JF
[10:15] * Zakim sees no one on the speaker queue
[10:16] <paul_grenier> JF: it feels like we need a bounty to quickly
attract development effort, are you aware of any funds like that?
[10:16] <paul_grenier> shadi: right now, I don't know of anything that fits
[10:17] <paul_grenier> JF: we haven't limited ourselves, we could use AT
plugin architectures like NVDA to help demonstrate what we want the
ecosystem to do.
[10:17] <paul_grenier> JF: if feels like it needs money to make that happen
[10:18] <paul_grenier> janina: it starts as markup but it could be an ebook
reader or AT that converts it.
[10:18] <paul_grenier> JF: any sort of document that supports markup, it's
not constrained to the browser.
[10:20] <paul_grenier> shadi: thank you, this is helpful. I think this can
be a priority for the commission. Roy, we need to take this back to the
internal meeting to spotlight it.
[10:20] <paul_grenier> JF: we need a concrete something to show people. The
video is good but it's one example.
[10:22] <paul_grenier> mark: Texthelp and pearson have implemented one of
the two approaches in current products.
[10:24] <paul_grenier> mark: From Pearson assessment (QTI XML) uses ssml in
the QTI content and gets transformed to HTML. Pearson needed a way to embed
the ssml into the html and were able to do the transform using the
attribute model. Texthelp is consuming that content and converting it to
speech.
[10:25] <shadi> s/for the commission/in Europe
[10:25] <paul_grenier> SteveNoble: there are 2 tools consuming the markup,
Pearson's own TTS tool and also Texthelp's extension which works inside
testnav.
[10:26] <shadi> s/easy-funded/EC-funded
[10:26] <paul_grenier> SteveNobel: there's a GUI based tool that lets
people add pronunciation to content.
[10:27] * shadi has to drop for other meeting
[10:28] <paul_grenier> mark: the SSML is only being consumed by readaloud
tools, we don't have a screen reader support.
[10:30] <paul_grenier> mark: educators are asking for better pronunciation
and pausing in the classroom and learning context
[10:31] <paul_grenier> shadi: I have to drop. This is great. I'll check in
with Roy.
[10:32] <paul_grenier> mark: do we know other kinds of short-term funding
sources to get this work done?
[10:33] <paul_grenier> zakim, take up item 2
[10:33] <Zakim> agendum 2 -- Editor Draft updates
https://w3c.github.io/pronunciation/technical-approach/ -- taken up [from
Irfan]
[10:33] == shadi [shadi@815ad96c.team.cloak] has left #pronunciation [
Leaving]
[10:33] <paul_grenier> mark: maybe some foundation money or special grants
from either Google or Amazon
[10:34] <paul_grenier> janina: who's behind Narrator?
[10:36] <paul_grenier> mark: I'm working on the single-attribute model in
the document
[10:36] <paul_grenier> irfan: paul has updated the multi-attribute demo
https://github.com/w3c/pronunciation/issues/70
[10:36] <paul_grenier> mark: I'll update section 2 within the next couple
of days
[10:37] <paul_grenier> irfan: maybe by next week we can review this and
push it to the next step
[10:39] <paul_grenier> zakim, next item
[10:39] <Zakim> agendum 1 -- Agenda Review & Announcements -- taken up
[from Irfan]
[10:39] <paul_grenier> zakim, take up item 4
[10:39] <Zakim> agendum 4 -- Other Business -- taken up [from Irfan]
[10:39] <paul_grenier> janina: we need our 1-2 paragraph pitch ready in
february
[10:40] <paul_grenier> janina: we need to write this up and it will be
shared once we send the charter to be reviewed by management
[10:40] <paul_grenier> janina: Roy has given personalization a start on
that so I'll make a draft based on Roy's draft
[10:41] <paul_grenier> janina: I should have that before we meed next week
[10:42] <paul_grenier> RRSAgent, make logs public
[10:42] <RRSAgent> I have made the request, paul_grenier
[10:42] <paul_grenier> RRSAgent, make minutes
[10:42] <RRSAgent> I have made the request to generate
https://www.w3.org/2021/01/20-pronunciation-minutes.html paul_grenier
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:07 PM Ali, Irfan <iali@ets.org> wrote:

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