Re: [css3-speech] voice-pitch-range property name

On 13 Jul 2011, at 19:41, fantasai wrote:

> The pair of 'voice-pitch-range' and 'voice-pitch' are a little strange.
> Usually if we have a property whose name is a subset of the other, it's
> a shorthand that sets, among other things, that longhand. An example
> would be 'font-variant' and 'font-variant-caps'.

I see.

> But 'voice-pitch' and
> 'voice-pitch-range' do not have such a relationship; they're independent
> properties.
> 
> So I'm wondering if 'voice-pitch-range' should have a different name,
> maybe shorten to 'voice-range' or 'voice-variance' or somesuch?

The SSML term is "range", so "voice-range" would seem satisfactory.
I have no objection to renaming the property (I am not aware of any implementation of it).

http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/#edef_prosody

Received on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:53:20 UTC