- From: Dan Burnett <dburnett@voxeo.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:48:32 -0500
- To: Bjorn Bringert <bringert@google.com>
- Cc: Olli@pettay.fi, "Young, Milan" <Milan.Young@nuance.com>, "public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org" <public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org>
I agree with "We should not require UAs to install app-requested local speech service implementations." I do not completely agree with "by default web apps should just work regardless what the engine is". The problem with the latter statement is the definition of "work". While many web apps will not have a preference for the speech engine, many will. However, I think this is already covered by our other requirements that allow for web app request of network speech resources. -- dan On Nov 11, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Bjorn Bringert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Olli Pettay > <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote: >> On 11/11/2010 08:40 PM, Olli Pettay wrote: >>> >>> On 11/11/2010 08:34 PM, Young, Milan wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello Olli, >>>> >>>> Near the end of the call you made a comment on IRC. Something >>>> along the >>>> lines that you might not agree with the requirement. To which >>>> requirement were you referring? Was this the requirement for a >>>> default >>>> speech implementation? >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> >>> >>> It was about the plugins and such. >>> To allow web apps to work in all browsers, web apps should not >>> rely on >>> some particular local speech engine. >>> >>> But I need to think about this, since I do realize that >>> some engines may not work well enough in all use cases. >>> >>> >>> -Olli >>> >>> >> >> So, IMO, we shouldn't recommend or require the case when web app can >> ask UA/user to install any kind of plugins. >> UA should (or probably must, so that we can support offline web apps) >> have local speech engines, and perhaps it can have some >> mechanism to replace the default embedded engines with some other >> ones, >> or maybe an UA can support several different kinds of engines, but by >> default web apps should just work regardless what the engine is. >> >> I don't think we want to be in a similar situation where browsers are >> now with plugins like Flash; it works in some systems but not all >> and UA vendors cannot do anything to it. And yet there are web pages >> which absolutely require Flash to work. > > I agree with Olli's opinion. We should not require UAs to install > app-requested local speech service implementations. > > > -- > Bjorn Bringert > Google UK Limited, Registered Office: Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham > Palace Road, London, SW1W 9TQ > Registered in England Number: 3977902 >
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