- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:37:08 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Sounds to me like combine (so that's my suggestion) but the proposal itself seems good. I checked, and confound can be used like this, but it has more other interpretations than combine. Cheers Charles On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jon Gunderson wrote: Charles, What happens is that the user agent can enumerate a number of voice labels that are typically made available to users as a list of voice options. Each voice label has its own pitch range and other voice filter parameters that determine the "sound" and "accent" of the voice (i.e adult male, child female, robotic...). Usually features like average pitch and speech rate can be adjusted within a voice label, but the other voice filtering parameters like pitch range, stress and richness cannot be adjusted within the label. Therefore the voice label confounds these later voice filter parameters since they cannot be adjusted manually, and typically if you allow the user to adjust these filters manually they can easily set filter parameters that result in unstable speech filters (i.e. noise rather than speech is generated). But I would leave it to the editors to find the right words. Jon At 10:12 AM 11/23/2000 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Confound means to me that they make it very difficult. Do you mean compound >or combine? > >If so, this makes good sense to me. > >cheers > >Chaals > >On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Jon Gunderson wrote: > > I suggest that we do not change checkpoint 4.14 (other than for other > resolved changes for adding language), but add the following note after the > checkpoint. > > [NEW] > Note: Many speech synthesizers confound the specification of voice gender, > pitch range, stress, richness in named voice labels that use pitch range, > stress and richness parameters to help create different voice sounds (i.e > adult male, child female, robot voice). When using these synthesizers make > available the full range of voices. > [/NEW] > > Jon > > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP > Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology > Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services > MC-574 > College of Applied Life Studies > University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign > 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 > > Voice: (217) 244-5870 > Fax: (217) 333-0248 > > E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu > > WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund > WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua > > > >-- >Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia >September - November 2000: >W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, >France Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia September - November 2000: W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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