Re: Speech API Community Group

I second Milan's proposal.  Genesys is interested in this effort iff 
network speech services are included in its scope.

- Jim Barnett

On 4/3/2012 11:48 AM, Young, Milan wrote:
>
> The proposal mentions that the specification of a network speech 
> protocol is out of scope. This makes sense given that protocols are 
> the domain of the IETF.
>
> But I'd like to confirm that the use of network speech services are in 
> scope for this CG.  Would you mind amending the proposal to make this 
> explicit?
>
> Thanks
>
> *From:*Glen Shires [mailto:gshires@google.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:13 AM
> *To:* public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org; public-webapps@w3.org
> *Subject:* Speech API Community Group
>
> We at Google have proposed the formation of a new "Speech API 
> Community Group" to pursue a JavaScript Speech API. We encourage you 
> to join and support this effort. [1]
>
> We believe that forming a Community Group has the following advantages:
>
> - It's quick, efficient and minimizes unnecessary process overhead.
>
> - We believe it will allow us, as a group, to reach consensus in 
> an efficient manner.
>
> - We hope it will expedite interoperable implementations in 
> multiple browsers. (A good example is the Web Media Text Tracks CG, 
> where multiple implementations are happening quickly.)
>
> Google plans to supply an implementation and a test suite for 
> this specification, and will commit to serve as editor.  We hope that 
> others will support this CG as they had stated support for the similar 
> WebApps CfC. [2]
>
> Bjorn Bringert
>
> Satish Sampath
>
> Glen Shires
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#speech-api
>
> [2] 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0315.html
>