Re: TPAC Meet up with Audio Working Group

Unfortunately I don't think there'd be much point in implementing those
APIs.

* On many platforms, there are APIs to generate speech using the default
system voice, but no APIs to capture that resulting stream as audio.
* The terms of service for many text-to-speech voices allow them to be used
in real time to generate speech for the user, but prohibit recording the
audio and saving it for later playback.
* While there are some very useful open-source TTS engines or engines with
less restrictive licenses, in general the highest-quality engines whether
local or remote tend to have some restrictions on their allowed use.


On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 5:33 AM Matthew Paradis <matthew.paradis@bbc.co.uk>
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> Hello!
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> I am the current co-chair of the W3C Audio Working group.
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> We are currently in CR and beginning to focus on v.next of the web audio
> api. I have had a number of conversations where speech api output->web
> audio  and vice versa have been mentioned.
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> I wondered if it would be useful to have a chat over a coffee during TPAC
> to discuss how the two apis might work together in the future.
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> Best
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> Matt
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