Synthetic Media Community Group

Web Speech API Community Group,

A new W3C community group has launched on the topics of synthetic media. Synthetic media is any media which is created or modified algorithmically and it can involve uses of digital characters and speech synthesis. Its applications include education, journalism and entertainment scenarios.

The new group is interested in all of the components of the modern architectures of synthetic media, including: digital characters, dialogue systems, speech synthesis, modeling and simulation, computational narratology, digital screenplays, automated planning and scheduling, deep learning, content evaluation and computational aesthetics.

We intend to advance the state of the art with a number of new standards. With new and improved standards, teams and organizations will be better able to explore and develop the interoperable components which comprise these modern architectures of artificial intelligence.

As envisioned, the new group will warm up with some discussions of: 3D computer animation and articulatory synthesis. Articulatory synthesis involves simulating and animating the muscles and organs of speech articulation to realize natural-sounding speech. A first project for the new group could be specifying a new articulatory synthesis markup language (ASML). In theory, AI researchers and developers will be able to achieve better results with ASML than with SSML and text-to-speech approaches.

I would like to invite you to join the new group: https://www.w3.org/community/synthetic-media/join/ .


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com/contents/