- From: Bjorn Bringert <bringert@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:15:45 +0000
- To: Olli@pettay.fi
- Cc: "public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org" <public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org>
Consider an app like http://translate.google.com/. If it can't check
whether a given language is supported, how can it know when to show
buttons for speech input and output?
/Bjorn
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think FPR39. "Web application must be able to be notified when the
> selected language is not available." needs some tweaking so that
> implementations aren't allow to give web apps information about
> locally supported languages, at least without user's interaction.
> I mean there shouldn't be anything like a Javascript method
> window.speech.localSpeechEngine.isLanguageSupported("Some_language") which
> could be used for fingerprinting.
>
>
> -Olli
>
>
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