- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:19:25 +0200
- To: W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
The CSS WG published an update of the CSS3 Speech module: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-speech-20110419/ The Speech module contains properties for output of documents to synthesized speech. They control voice, volume, pitch, speed, pauses, etc. They are intended to be compatible with SSML (Speech Synthesis Mark-up Language), so that a CSS style sheet can not only be used to render a document as speech, but can also serve to convert a document into SSML instructions. The module replaces the deprecated 'aural' media type in the appendix of CSS level 2. The priority of this module has fluctuated in recent years. Although some work has been done on it in the working group since the last draft of 2004, it never reached a stable enough state to publish a new draft. Thanks to a new editor, Daniel Weck of the DAISY Consortium, we may finally have enough resources to bring the specification to CR. Comments are welcome. As usual with CSS drafts, please, send feedback to this mailing list, <www-style@w3.org>, and prefix the Subject line with the short name of the specification in square brackets: [css3-speech] For the CSS WG, Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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