- From: Nick Arnett <narnett@verity.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:13:17 -0800
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, Dave Raggett <dsr@www10.w3.org>, www-style@www10.w3.org, www-html@www10.w3.org
At 07:07 PM 1/10/97 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote: >Yes, it is worth stressing that language is a much more important >tag or attribute when using speech synthesis. It is easy to tell >que j'ecrire en Français pour un peu, and then switch to back to >English. A speech synth would get very confused without explicit markup. That's not really a good assumption. Morphological analyzers have very little trouble identifying languages. It's a lot easier to toss the text against something that'll automatically recognize it than to expect writers and editors to insert such tags. A standard set of tags is a good idea, but one shouldn't assume that a lot of this can't be automated and reviewed by humans. Nick --------------------------------------- Verity Inc. Connecting People with Information Product Manager, Categorization and Visualization 408-542-2164; home office 408-369-1233; fax 408-541-1600 http://www.verity.com
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