- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:32:03 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 07/23/2012 10:37 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote: >>Jon Rimmer wrote: >>> 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. > Apple's NSSpeechSynthesizer defines > > "NSVoiceGenderNeuter > A neutral voice (or a novelty voice with a humorous or whimsical quality)." > > My experience has been that Neuter or Neutral will usually give a voice that is not obviously of one gender or another, > either because it sounds robotic or because as noted above it is a voice which is more humorous than practical. This is starting to sound like the definition for 'font-family: fantasy': Do something unpredictable that nobody can rely on to match anything, but everyone can rely on to mismatch these other saner things... ~fantasai
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