Re: Suggested change to <audio/>

In essence, you want to create a composite-audio object that will be 
treated by the language as a single URI.  Although not a language 
solution, you could do:

<audio expr="concatAudio.cgi?digits=123456">
<say-as interpret-as="digits'>123456</say-as>
</audio>

where the host logic returns "Not Found" if any of the implied files has 
a problem, and otherwise returns the concatenated audio stream.

Dan Evans

Shane Smith wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> One of the best features of audio is the ability to play backup tts
> should the audio source be unavailable.  Currently though, <audio/>
> requires either the src or expr attributes to be listed, or a badfetch
> is tossed.  Well, I've come upon a scenario where I wouldn't
> necessarily want to list either, and use the backup tts feature in a
> way that wasn't anticipated, but could be very useful.
> 
> For example, let's say I'm playing an account number to the caller:
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'1.wav'">1</audio>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'2.wav'">2</audio>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'3.wav'">3</audio>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'4.wav'">4</audio>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'5.wav'">5</audio>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'6.wav'">6</audio>
> 
> I'm not going to prerecord every possible number, so I play audio one
> digit at a time.  But, if for any reason one or more of them is
> unavailable, I would rather the whole thing be read back as TTS.   The
> above code sounds horrible as backup tts, and I do not really have
> ssml control over it.
> 
> What I would like to see is this:
> 
> <audio>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'1.wav'/>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'2.wav'/>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'3.wav'/>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'4.wav'/>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'5.wav'/>
>   <audio expr="AudioDirectory+'6.wav'/>
>   <prosody rate="-10%">
>   <say-as interpret-as="digits">123456</say-as>
>   </prosody>
> </audio>
> 
> This (or something similar) would allow you to chain a bunch of audio
> prompts together, but if any of them fail, have a single backup tts
> prompt replaced for all of them.  In my head, if all numbers wav files
> were unavailable, or even if just 5.wav were unavailable, none of them
> would play, and the ssml'ed TTS would play instead.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shane Smith
> 
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:10:25 UTC