- From: Brady Duga <duga@ljug.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:06:21 -0700
- To: Andrew Thompson <lordpixel@mac.com>
- Cc: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Vocalize? Or just vocal? But perhaps that is weird when discussing tts. --Brady On Apr 27, 2011, at 5:21 AM, Andrew Thompson <lordpixel@mac.com> wrote: > You're correct, use of this invented word is ugly. > > This is tricky because in an ideal world I think speakability would in fact be speak (as in speak: none or speak: auto) and the existing speak property would work well if it were called pronunciation (pronunciation: normal, pronunciation: spell-out). Still no chance of that now. > > 'Speaking' doesn't work because it's the present participle of a verb (gerund) and you need a noun construct like speaking-style or an adjective for consistency. > > Some alternatives > 'speech' > 'audibility' > 'aural' > ? > > On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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/ >> >
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