- From: William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:48:15 -0800
- To: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: "Raman T. V." <raman@mv.us.adobe.com>, www-style@w3.org
Bert Bos wrote: > > Raman T. V. writes: > > > Here is a revised version of the cascaded speech stylesheet based > > on feedback from the net community. > [...] > > <H3>Speech Properties</H3> > > > > Speech properties specify the voice characterestic to be used when rednering > > specific document elements. > > Is there a reason why you put `:' in front of all properties and some > keywords? I imagine because he comes from a lisp background, and we've been implementing this in Emacs-w3. Common-lisp style keywords, doncha know. [...] > [...] > > <DT> :voice-family > > <DD> string<P> > > > > Analogous to the :font-family property. > > This specifies the kind of voice to be used, and can be something generic > > such as <em>male</em> or something more specific such as > > <em>comedian</em> > > or something very specific such as <em>paul</em>. > > We recommend the same approach as used in the case of :font-family --the > > style sheet provide a list of possible values ranging from most to least > > specific and allow the browser to pick the most specific voice that it > > can find on the output device in use. > > Are there well-known names (like `paul') that are more or less agreed > on? Is it possible to specify a URL for the voice-family instead, so > that the URL describes the voice? This would definitely be useful - is there any sort of standard format that most synths use for 'voices'? -Bill P.
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