- From: Daniel C. Burnett <Daniel.Burnett@nuance.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:03:39 -0400
- To: <www-voice@w3.org>
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The SSML subgroup of the Voice Browser Working Group held its seventh meeting by teleconference on October 9-11, 2007. The meeting included attendees by Toshiba, IBM, France Telecom, Loquendo, and Nuance. The primary goals of this meeting were to review and address any outstanding change requests, review and address any comments from public reviewers of the third Working Draft, to plan the remainder of our Implementation Report Plan assertion and test writing, and to prepare for the Last Call Working Draft. The most substantive changes in the last Working Draft were those made by the main Voice Browser Working Group with respect to new features for the <audio> element. The subgroup reviewed those changes and initiated a conversation with the main Voice Browser Working Group about the optionality and syntax of these new <audio> features. We also revamped the description of the voice selection algorithm for the <voice> element to make it clearer how it works. Additionally, we defined the default gain and pitch of a document to be that of the unmodified voice/waveform. At this point the most significant issues to resolve are the details around the new <audio> attributes, including the control authors should have over separate or joint modification of audio speed and pitch. We will have a monthly teleconference to track progress on the remaining IR assertions and tests. We expect to publish a Last Call Working Draft of the specification before our next meeting. Our next meeting will be held in Beijing January 15-17, 2008. Daniel C. Burnett and Zhi Wei Shuang, Co-chairs, Speech Synthesis Subgroup, VBWG
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