Re: Text to Speech proposal

Using media URI fragments sounds reasonable.

/Bjorn

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Marc Schroeder <marc.schroeder@dfki.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 05.11.10 11:52, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
>
>> * It could also be useful to allow starting from a given point without
>> scripting by allowing a URI fragment in the src attribute value. This
>> would allow the user agent to buffer from the correct point when
>> autobuffer is set.
>>
>
> It seems to me that SSML <mark>s and XML/HTML fragment IDs don't really
> play well together. (The SSML mark example in the proposed spec also
> reflects that.)
>
> SSML <mark> is a point-based notation (from mark A to mark B); URI fragment
> is a node notation (node X).
>
> In the example that Milan pointed out, it would be nice to be able to say
> "play from mark A to mark B", but using src to point to a fragment of the
> SSML document allows us only to point to a node X in that document.
>
> What it would be nice to have is something like using the Media Fragment
> URI mechanism [1] for <audio>, where you could say:
>
> <audio src="http://example.com/file.wav#t=3,10">
>
> in order to refer to the stretch of the audio file from second 3 to second
> 10.
>
>
> I don't know for the syntax, but conceptually it would be nice to be able
> to say something like,
>
> <tts src="text.ssml#section=A,B">
>
> where text.ssml contains <mark name="A"/> and <mark name="B"/>.
>
> Best,
> Marc
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/
>
>
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