RE: Rename "TTS" object to "TextToSpeech"

While I agree with Dominic's arguments, I doubt the subtle difference in semantics between recognition/recognizer or synthesis/synthesizer would be appreciated by developers.  My vote is for the original synthesizer/recognizer combo because the words pair well together.


-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Wennborg [mailto:hwennborg@google.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 10:08 AM
To: Dominic Mazzoni
Cc: public-speech-api@w3.org; Adam Sobieski; Glen Shires
Subject: Re: Rename "TTS" object to "TextToSpeech"

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com> wrote:
> How about SpeechRecognition and SpeechSynthesis instead of 
> SpeechRecognizer and SpeechSynthesizer?
>
> The reason being that the APIs are really interfaces to control and 
> dispatch speech recognition and synthesis at a high level, the actual 
> recognizer and synthesizer are not necessarily local (though they 
> could be), they may be in a different process or on a remote server.

That's a good argument. I'm happy with SpeechRecognition and SpeechSynthesis if others agree.

Thanks,
Hans

Received on Monday, 11 June 2012 17:29:37 UTC