- From: Max Froumentin <mf@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:49:25 +0000
- To: "Jim Tobias" <tobias@inclusive.com>
- Cc: "'Al Gilman'" <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, <www-voice@w3.org>, "'Harvey Bingham'" <hbingham@acm.org>
"Jim Tobias" <tobias@inclusive.com> writes:
> There is a clear potential benefit for people who are hard of hearing or in
> noisy environments, but this may be even more valuable when the speech rate
> is set high, such as by screen reader users.
Sounds interesting, and it gives me two ideas:
- there could be an attribute on the grapheme element, indicating that this
particular grapheme contains a more accessible pronunciation:
<lexeme>
<grapheme>huge</grapheme>
<phoneme>hju:dz</phoneme>
<phoneme class="articulated">hju:u:u:u:dzzzz</phoneme>
</lexeme>
- or why not have some SSML markup (prosody, for instance) there too?
<phoneme class="slow"><prosody rate="-10%">huge</prosody></phoneme>
maybe _that_'s streching the thread out far...
Max.
Received on Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:11:12 UTC