[css3-speech] 'speakability' property name

Hello !

I am not a native english speaker, so I would like to query your  
opinion about the 'speakability' property name [1]. A better  
alternative may be 'speaking', but I'm concerned about its  
juxtaposition with the existing 'speak' property, and the resulting  
potential misinterpretations.

Note that although CSS3-Speech is directly "inspired" by SSML [2], the  
closest equivalent to the 'speak' CSS functionality is described in  
the "say-as attribute values" W3C Note [3]. I would however not  
recommend the use of "say-as" instead of 'speak', because in the case  
of CSS3-Speech, the feature scope is much more limited (in other  
words, using "say-as" would effectively be misleading).

Regards, Daniel

[1]
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-speech/#speaking-props

[2]
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/

[3]
http://www.w3.org/TR/ssml-sayas/

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 02:33:02 UTC