Re: Text to Speech proposal

1. I don't think that any further programmatic API is needed. The DOM
interface allows creating new HTMLTtsElement instances and gives you
programmatic access to all the features. This is the same as for the HTML5
audio API. There should probably be an example of such usage in the
proposal.

2. There can be any number of <tts> elements in the document (just like
<audio>). You can also reuse the same element and change the content from
JavaScript.

/Bjorn

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:10 PM, David Bolter <david.bolter@gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Bjorn,
>
> I like that web developers can potentially reuse existing knowledge of
> audio elements with your spec.
>
> My initial questions:
>
> 1. Are you thinking this approach can exist alongside a more programmatic
> API? Or do you think this should be *the* TTS support for HTML?
> 2. I'm assuming there can be more than one <tts> element per document,
> correct?
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> On 04/11/10 11:08 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
>
>> I have attached a proposal for how we could add TTS support to HTML by
>> introducing a<tts>  element that shares a lot of functionality with
>> <audio>.
>>
>> This is based on an earlier version that I linked to in a thread in
>> September (
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2010Sep/0018.html
>> ).
>> The main differences are in examples, clarifications, formatting, and
>> handling of SSML<mark>  elements.
>>
>>
>


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