- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:27:28 +0200
- To: www style <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
On 1 Aug 2011, at 19:20, fantasai wrote: >> --- >> Possible values are 'child', 'young' and 'old', indicating the preferred >> age category to match during voice selection. The mapping with SSML ages >> is defined as follows: 'child' = up to 15 y/o, 'young' = between 16 and >> 45 y/o, 'old' = 46 y/o onwards. >> NOTE: The interpretation of the relationship between a person's age and >> a recognizable type of voice cannot realistically be defined in a universal >> manner, as it effectively depends on numerous cultural and linguistic >> variations. The values provided by this specification therefore represent >> a simplified model that can be reasonably applied to a great variety of >> speech locales, albeit at the cost of a certain degree of approximation. >> Future versions of this specification may refine the level of precision >> of the voice-matching algorithm, as speech processor implementations >> become more standardized. >> --- > > How about just mapping the keywords to specific numbers, and letting the > voice-matching algorithm figure out the slack? > 'child' = 6 years old > 'young' = 24 years old > 'old' = 75 years old > or somesuch I see. I think that the informative note (pleonasm, I know :) is useful, do you have any comments on the formulation? Thanks, Dan
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