- From: João Eiras <joaoe@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:20:36 +0100
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:50:20 +0100, Dave Burke <daveburke at google.com> wrote: > We're envisaging a simpler programmatic API that looks familiar to the > modern Web developer but one which avoids the legacy of dialog system > languages. > Ok. I referenced that XHTML+Voice because there is already a specification with markup, css 2 aural stylesheets and javascript APIs, and one implementation. I quite sure someone can revisit this whole issue, and refactor the xhtml+voice specification into something more acceptable and implementable. I don't think anyone would implement it the way it is. > Dave > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Jo?o Eiras <joaoe at opera.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:07 +0100, Bjorn Bringert <bringert at google.com> >> wrote: >> >> We've been watching our colleagues build native apps that use speech >>> recognition and speech synthesis, and would like to have JavaScript >>> APIs that let us do the same in web apps. We are thinking about >>> creating a lightweight and implementation-independent API that lets >>> web apps use speech services. Is anyone else interested in that? >>> >>> Bjorn Bringert, David Singleton, Gummi Hafsteinsson >>> >>> >> This exists already, but only Opera supports it, although there are >> problems with the library we use for speech recognition. >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml+voice/ >> http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/add-voice-interactivity-to-your-site/ >> >> Would be nice to revive that specification and get vendor buy-in. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Jo?o Eiras >> Core Developer, Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/ >>
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