use case for enabling multiple languages/dialects for the same page

• From: Deborah Dahl <dahl@conversational-technologies.com>
• Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:35:22 -0400
• To: <public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <002801cb51b6$2f9a2500$8ece6f00$@conversational-technologies.com>

Sometime there are multiple dialects of the written language of a web page,
and the developer would like to support speech input in any of those
dialects. For example, an English page might be viewed by speakers of
American, British, Australian or other English dialects. Speech recognition
won't work very well with a recognizer for the wrong dialect. I think this
problem would be even more severe in Chinese, since basically the same
writing system is used for different languages, not just different dialects
of the same language. 
For a humorous example of speech recognition gone awry when an unanticipated
dialect is used, check out the "Scottish voice-operated lift" YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JcHhA7M-Y.

Received on Saturday, 11 September 2010 13:36:13 UTC