- From: Jon Rimmer <jon.rimmer@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:45:50 +1000
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 24/07/2012 11:45 AM, fantasai wrote: > On 07/23/2012 05:51 PM, Jon Rimmer wrote: > >> If it were the former, the speech engine would default to a male >> voice, but if it were the latter, it would use a distorted or >> robotic voice. > > Or maybe just raise the pitch to a more neutral range. I doubt > 'neutral' is intended to mean "inhuman". :) That's what I thought, but when I looked at the Java speech API, I found that it documents the GENDER_NEUTRAL constant as "Neutral voice that is neither male or female (for example, artificial voices, robotic voices)." [1]. Microsoft's .NET API doesn't provide any detail [2]. It'll depend on the implementation of the speech synthesis I suppose, but it seems possible some may use novelty voices if that's what's installed and available. It's worth nothing that both APIs define a separate "no preference" option as well, so an auto value would seem to be required. [1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17802_01/products/products/java-media/speech/forDevelopers/jsapi-doc/javax/speech/synthesis/Voice.html#GENDER_NEUTRAL [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.voicegender.aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms586874.aspx>
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