First Public Working Draft: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements

Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements

https://www.w3.org/TR/2026/DNOTE-ruby-tts-req-20260129/

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 Internationalization Working Group

Abstract

This document describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations. It examines the roles and practices of ruby in different writing systems and discusses the implications of various reading strategies for text-to-speech, without prescribing algorithms or implementation-specific behavior.

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