RE: Speech API: first editor's draft posted

Speech API Community Group, 
With regard to XML output (e.g. hypertext, RDFa, MathML) and speech recognition output, techniques include the use of SISR (http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/#SI7, http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/#SI7.1, http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/#SI7.2, http://www.w3.org/TR/semantic-interpretation/#SI7.3), NLSML (http://www.w3.org/TR/nl-spec/) or EMMA (http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/).   
Kind regards,
 
AdamDate: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:05:10 -0700
From: chuck@jumis.com
To: adamsobieski@hotmail.com
CC: hwennborg@google.com; public-speech-api@w3.org; public-speech-api-contrib@w3.org
Subject: Re: Speech API: first editor's draft posted


  
    
  
  
    Yes, the TTS interface does seem a bit lean on features.

    And the object name "TTS" is short compared to other standards.

    

    I do like the option of allowing SSML, but I don't know that we'll
    see much support of it in the short term.

    

    I've worked a little bit with these extensions which simply pass on
    to the OS APIs:

    http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tts.html

    http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/ttsEngine.html

    

    It'd be nice to be able to specify some kind of synthesis from IPA
    without fully requiring SSML.

    

    -Charles

    

    On 4/14/2012 8:30 AM, Adam Sobieski wrote:
    
      
      
        Speech API Community Group,

         

        Greetings.  Regarding http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html, I
          wanted to also provide some comments and suggestions for
          discussion:
         
        (1) The interface 'TTS' can be refactored
          to 'SpeechSynthesis', 'SpeechSynthesizer' or 'SpeechSynth'.
        (2) The synthesis interface can include, in
          addition to text string input, XML string input and document
          element input for HTML5 and SSML.
        (3) During the synthesis of document element
          inputs, UA's can process substructural elements, as they are
          synthesized, with options resembling http://wam.inrialpes.fr/timesheets/docs/timeAction.html
          .
        (4) For XML string and document element input
          formats, PLS references, CSS speech styling, as well as
          EPUB3-style SSML-like attributes (http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-contentdocs.html#sec-xhtml-ssml-attrib)
          can be recognized by synthesis processors.
        (5) With regard to <math> elements,
          <annotation-xml encoding="application/ssml+xml"> can be
          recognized by synthesis processors.
         
        (6) <input> types and speech recognition (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Feb/att-0020/api-draft.html),
          extending HTMLInputElement.
        (7) Runtime dynamic grammars.
        (8) SRGS/SISR object model.
         
        The synthesis and recognition of speech
          containing mathematical and scientific formulas are
          interesting topics.  In the comments and suggestions above,
          the synthesis of mathematical and scientific formulas is
          broached and also interesting is how grammars can be described
          such that speech recognition transcripts can include XML,
          hypertext, or MathML mathematical and scientific notation.
         
         
         

        Kind regards,

         

        Adam Sobieski

         

        > From: hwennborg@google.com

          > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:30:03 +0100

          > To: public-speech-api-contrib@w3.org;
          public-webapps@w3.org; public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org

          > CC: satish@google.com; gshires@google.com

          > Subject: Speech API: first editor's draft posted

          > 

          > In December, Google proposed [1] to public-webapps a
          Speech JavaScript

          > API that subset supports the majority of the use-cases in
          the Speech

          > Incubator Group's Final Report. This proposal provides a
          programmatic

          > API that enables web-pages to synthesize speech output
          and to use

          > speech recognition as an input for forms, continuous
          dictation and

          > control.

          > 

          > We have now posted in the Speech-API Community Group's
          repository, a

          > slightly updated proposal [2], the differences include:

          > 

          > - Document is now self-contained, rather than having
          multiple

          > references to the XG Final Report.

          > - Renamed SpeechReco interface to SpeechRecognition

          > - Renamed interfaces and attributes beginning
          SpeechInput* to

          > SpeechRecognition*

          > - Moved EventTarget to constructor of SpeechRecognition

          > - Clarified that grammars and lang are attributes of
          SpeechRecognition

          > - Clarified that if index is greater than or equal to
          length, returns null

          > 

          > We welcome discussion and feedback on this editor's
          draft. Please send

          > your comments to the public-speech-api-contrib@w3.org
          mailing list.

          > 

          > Glen Shires

          > Hans Wennborg

          > 

          > [1]
          http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1696.html

          > [2]
          http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html

          >