- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:23:43 +0100
- To: W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai@inkedblade.net>
On 28 Apr 2011, at 08:49, fantasai wrote: > 9. voice-pitch-range > > # and typically has a value of 120Hz for a male voice and 210Hz for a > # female voice > > This is already mentioned under voice-pitch, and really belongs there > and not here, so I'd cut it out. True. > # one semitone is approximately 1.05946 (the actual arithmetics > involved > # are beyond the scope of this specification, please refer to existing > # literature on that subject). > > Question from the minutes <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Feb/0029.html > >: > > <dbaron> Is it possible to replace "(the actual arithmetics involved > are > beyond the scope of this specification, please refer to > existing > literature on that subject)" with "(the twelfth root of > two)"? :-) Oops, I forgot to edit this in !! Thank you for the heads-up (and sorry). > 9. voice-stress > > # For example, when the phrase "going to" is reduced it may be spoken > # as "gonna". > > This example is probably better attached to the "Emphasis is indicated > using a combination ... that varies from one language to the next." > But I'm dubious about this example. An articulate person could de- > stress > "going to" without reducing it to "gonna", no? This seems more like a > dialectical difference than a stress difference. This prose is lifted straight from the SSML specification, but I must admit, I feel the same about the relevance (and dare I say, the validity) of this example in the context of emphasis/stress speech characteristics. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/#S3.2.2 Many thanks again Fantasai !! Daniel
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