W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-03-01

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Call for Review: Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1
Proposed Recommendation

   23 February 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8728

   The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Proposed
   Recommendation of "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
   Version 1.1." The Speech Synthesis Markup Language
   Specification is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup
   language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in
   Web and other applications. The essential role of the markup
   language is to provide authors of synthesizable content a
   standard way to control aspects of speech such as
   pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different
   synthesis-capable platforms. SSML 1.1 improves SSML 1.0 support
   for a broader set of natural (human) languages. Known
   implementations are documented in the Implementation Report,
   along with the associated test suite. Comments are welcome
   through 23 March. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Voice/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-speech-synthesis11-20100223/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/2009/ssml11-ir/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Call for Review: XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 Proposed
Recommendation

   25 February 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8729

   The XML Core Working Group has published a Proposed
   Recommendation of "XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1."
   This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink)
   Version 1.1, which allows elements to be inserted into XML
   documents in order to create and describe links between
   resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can
   describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks
   of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Comments
   are welcome through 31 March. Learn more about the Extensible
   Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-xlink11-20100225/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Candidate Recommendation Updated for Timed Text Markup Language
(TTML) 1.0

   23 February 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8727

   The Timed Text Working Group has published an updated Candidate
   Recommendation of "Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0."
   TTML is a content type that represents timed text media for the
   purpose of interchange among authoring systems. Timed text is
   textual information that is intrinsically or extrinsically
   associated with timing information. This an updated document
   based on implementation experience; see the "list of changes."
   A test suite for TTML is available, along with its coverage
   report and a preliminary implementation report. The test suite
   and implementations are work in progress and may not reflect
   all of the changes of this document. Learn more about the Video
   in the Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20100223/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20100223/#change-histor
   y-cr2-to-cr3
   http://www.w3.org/2008/10/dfxp-testsuite.zip
   http://www.w3.org/2008/10/dfxp-test-coverage
   http://www.w3.org/2009/05/dfxp-results
   http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/

Second Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers Released

   23 February 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8725

   The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has just released a
   brand new Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers. Based on
   the same idea of evaluating support of a number of Web
   technologies at a glance as in the first Web Compatibility Test
   published in July 2008, this second version features a number
   of more recent technologies that promise to make Web browsers
   more powerful, in particular on mobile devices. Learn more
   about the Mobile Web Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/blog/2010/02/09/wctmbv2
   http://www.w3.org/2010/01/wctmb2/
   http://www.w3.org/2008/06/mobile-test/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

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Upcoming Talks

     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       XQuery in the Browser
       XML Prague
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       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Multimedia XML
       by Robin Berjon
       XML Prague 2010
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       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       How to avoid suffering from markup: A project report about
       the virtue of hiding XML
       by Felix Sasaki
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       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/index
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       A Time Machine for XML
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     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       XML Prague 2010
       Mohamed ZERGAOUI
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       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Schema-aware editing
       by George Bina
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       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/index
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-13 (13 MAR)
       Extending XQuery with collections, indexes, and integrity
       constraints
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       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-14 (14 MAR)
       Automating Document Assembly in DocBook
       by Norman Walsh
       XML Prague 2010
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-14 (14 MAR)
       XQuery in the Cloud
       by Donald Kossmann
       XML Prague
       http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/
       Prague, Czech Republic
     * 2010-03-25 (25 MAR)
       Building an Accessible Web Browser: W3C User Agent
       Accessibility Guidelines
       Annual International Technology and Persons with
       Disabilities Conference
       http://csunconference.org
       San Diego, CA, USA
     * 2010-04-23 (23 APR)
       Distributed Multimodality in the Multimodal Architecture
       by Deborah Dahl
       Mobile Voice Conference
       http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
       San Francisco, USA

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