Re: People's names

Hi Jean-Christophe,

At 14:51 21/02/2006, JC Helary wrote:

>>4. Rendition of name (attribute name "rendition")
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>
>>An example value is: rnd:pronounce.
>>
>>An example is:
>>
>>   <name rendition="rnd:pronounce">Koizumi Jun'ichirō</name>
>
>Wouldn't it be better to use IPA here?

It depends on what "rnd:pronounce" is for: a phonetic alphabet
would be better for speech synthesis, but maybe not for humans.
How many people, except linguists, can read IPA?
Speech Synthesis Markup Language has a say-as element
(http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/#edef_say-as)
and a phoneme element which should support alphabet="ipa"
(http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/#S3.1.9).
The spec says: "It is an error if a value for alphabet is
specified that is not known or cannot be applied by a synthesis
processor."
The rnd:pronounce example is one where the 'alphabet' is not
specified, so I can't choose between the "synthesis processors"
in my head ;-)

Regards,

Christophe Strobbe


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