- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:59:23 -0500 ()
- To: Masafumi NAKANE/中根雅文 <max@wide.ad.jp>
- cc: jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU, w3c-wai-hc@w3.org
For those of you who weren't able to attend my talk on speech synthesis at the WAI meeting in Austin last week I have copied the slides to the server at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/Talks/9711-Speech/slide1.htm Note that I believe W3C should be aiming for high quality speech synthesis which is able to cope with things like: - in French you can change an assertion into a question by a raising emphasis at the end of the sentence. - speaking in a louder and quicker voice indicates increased excitement or even anger Subtle control over emphasis is lacking in IPA. Furthermore attempts to represent IPA in ASCII include characters such as " and ' which can make it harder to express using HTML or XML attributes. I am interested in easier to write notations similar to those commonly used in regular dictionaries. These are language specific, but then so are the pronunciation dictionaries being extended. Perhaps a language/culture independent represetation such as being proposed for Java by Sun is also needed. This could be harder to write -- Sun's uses XML. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2984 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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