- From: Andrew Thompson <lordpixel@mac.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:08:41 -0500
- To: Roopa Trivedi <rotrived@cisco.com>
- Cc: www-voice@w3.org
Some voices may sound deliberately robotic or be "fun" voices that sounds like an alien or musical. Gender may bit apply to some of these. I realize that doesn't entirely answer your question, but its probably one reason this exists. On Feb 18, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Roopa Trivedi wrote: > > Hi, > SSML 1.0 spec says that > > "gender: optional attribute indicating the preferred gender of the > voice > to speak the contained text. Enumerated values are: "male", "female", > "neutral"" > > Does this mean that "neutral" is yet another type of gender supported > by > some TTS vendors? Or, does it mean that the user does not wish to > specify a gender and thus uses "neutral" to leave the gender selection > elsewhere. > > Thanks, > Roopa AndyT (lordpixel - the cat who walks through walls) A little bigger on the inside (see you later space cowboy ...)
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