Re: Speech Synthesis - Length parameter

Hey Jerry,

sorry I wasn't clear. I was proposing to create a new GIT repository,
probably GitHub would fit well, and have something like
https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker or https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents

So each time someone wants to propose an errata you can create a pull
request and manage the discussion there (e.g.
https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/pull/557)

Glen, I'd be happy to help to setup this stack in case you think it can be
useful



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2016-11-14 21:02 GMT+01:00 Jerry Smith (WPT) <jdsmith@microsoft.com>:

> Antonio:  Are you asking me to post a github issue, or for a speech
> repository to be created on github?  I looked, but couldn’t find one.
>
>
>
> I’d be glad to open a github issue for this.
>
>
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
> *From:* Antonino Caccamo [mailto:antonio@seltzlab.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, November 12, 2016 5:19 AM
> *To:* Jerry Smith (WPT) <jdsmith@microsoft.com>; Eitan Isaacson <
> eisaacson@mozilla.com>; Glen Shires <gshires@google.com>
> *Cc:* Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>; public-speech-api@w3.org
>
> *Subject:* Re: Speech Synthesis - Length parameter
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> just a proposal, but it would be great to have it on github
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Il ven 11 nov 2016, 22:42 Jerry Smith (WPT) <jdsmith@microsoft.com> ha
> scritto:
>
> That’s good to hear!
>
>
>
> I’m thinking this is the change:
>
>
>
> Add *charLength* to SpeechSynthesisEvent Attributes:
>
> *5.2.5 SpeechSynthesisEvent Attributes*
>
> *charLength** attribute*
>
> This attribute indicates the length of the text word or sentence, in
> characters, starting from the current charIndex in the audio playback.  The
> user agent must return this value if the speech synthesis engine supports
> it or the user agent can otherwise determine it, otherwise the user agent
> must return undefined.
>
>
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
> *From:* Eitan Isaacson [mailto:eisaacson@mozilla.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 11, 2016 1:05 PM
> *To:* Glen Shires <gshires@google.com>
> *Cc:* Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>; Jerry Smith (WPT) <
> jdsmith@microsoft.com>; public-speech-api@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Speech Synthesis - Length parameter
>
>
>
> Jerry, you beat me to it. I am willing to implement this in Firefox.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Glen Shires <gshires@google.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, this is the proper place to discuss potential changes / errata to [1].
>
> Thank you for the proposal. We welcome others to comment on it on this
> mailing list.
>
> The next step would be for someone to propose specific wording for an
> errata item in the format of [2].
>
> Then after allowing several weeks for all to review / comment, if
> there's agreement, we can add it to the errata [2] and to the draft
> with errata [1]
>
> [1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/webspeechapi.html
> [2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi-errata.html
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
> wrote:
> > I support 'length' in SpeechSynthesisEvent and I'd be willing to
> implement
> > it in Chrome if there are no objections.
> >
> > On a larger note, it'd be great if we could revive discussions on this
> list
> > and update the spec based on the errata.
> >
> > - Dominic
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:59 PM Jerry Smith (WPT) <jdsmith@microsoft.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> We’ve implemented speech synthesis in Edge on the Windows 10 Anniversary
> >> Update, and have been revising it lately to support the word boundary
> >> features.  We have an internal partner that wants to use these.  They’ve
> >> also requested we support word “length”, which isn’t included in the
> >> community group Web Speech API Specification.  Knowing the length in
> >> addition to boundary makes it very simple to highlight text while it is
> >> being spoken.  We already support this in WinRT APIs, and would like to
> do
> >> the same on Edge.
> >>
> >> Our goal would be to receive equivalents to the following WinRT API
> events
> >> for both paragraphs and words:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> TimeSpan              StartTime       Position in the audio stream
> >>
> >>                                       Required by IMediaCue
> >>
> >> HSTRING               Text            Text of the bookmark.  For
> sentence
> >> and word boundary this can provide the text snippet from the original
> text.
> >>
> >>                                       Note: We do not have a strong
> >> requirement to support text for word and sentence boundary markers.
> >>
> >> Nullable<UINT32>      Offset          Offset in the input text
> associated
> >> with the current position in the audio playback.
> >>
> >>                                       This is not populated for SSML
> >> bookmarks.
> >>
> >> Nullable<UINT32>      Length          The length of the text starting
> from
> >> the Offset associated with the position in the audio playback.
> >>
> >>                                       This is not populated for SSML
> >> bookmarks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The existing speech API spec has been around for a while.  Is there a
> way
> >> to evaluate and process spec additions/edits?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Glen:  I’d appreciate hearing your take on this suggestion.  The Speech
> >> API community report dates to 2012.  Is there much interest in revising
> it
> >> in other ways?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jerry Smith
> >>
> >> Microsoft – Web Platform Team
>
>
>
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> Antonino Caccamo - Seltzlab
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