- From: Kazuyuki Ashimura <ashimura@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:57:24 +0900
- To: www-voice@w3.org
Dear www-voice, We are very sorry but on 18 December 2007 we the W3C Voice Browser Working Group added a few minor modifications to the Implementation Report Plan [1] of the Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 Candidate Recommendation as follows: 1. The title of the document [1] is modified to "Implementation Report Plan". 2. The content of the test file for Assertion 79 [2] is modified to check the assertion properly. 3. The pls-ir-20071212.zip [3] archive is also regenerated to include above modified files. Please refer the updated version of the Implementation Report Plan, the test and the ZIP archive. Note: There is no change in the Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 Candidate Recommendation [4] itself. [1] http://www.w3.org/Voice/2007/pls-irp/#intro [2] http://www.w3.org/Voice/2007/pls-irp/79/79-.pls [3] http://www.w3.org/Voice/2007/pls-irp/pls-ir-20071212.zip [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/ Sincerely, Kazuyuki James Larson wrote: > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the Candidate > Recommendation of "Pronunciation Lexicon specification (PLS) Version > 1.0". W3C publishes a technical report as a Candidate Recommendation > to indicate that the document is believed to be stable, and to > encourage implementation by the developer community. The PLS > candidate Recommendation document is located at > http://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/ > > The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) is designed to enable > interoperable specification of pronunciation information for both > speech recognition and speech synthesis engines. The language is > intended to be easy to use by developers while supporting the accurate > specification of pronunciation information for international use. The > language allows one or more pronunciations for a word or phrase to be > specified using a standard pronunciation alphabet or if necessary > using vendor specific alphabets. Pronunciations are grouped together > into a PLS document which may be referenced from other markup > languages, such as the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification [SRGS] > and the Speech Synthesis Markup Language [SSML]. Pronunciation > lexicons are not only useful for voice browsers; they have also proven > effective mechanisms to support accessibility for persons with > disabilities as well as greater usability for all users. They are used > to good effect in screen readers and user agents supporting multimodal > interfaces. > > Jim Larson and Scott McGlashan > Co-chairs, W3C Voice Browser Working Group > -- Kazuyuki Ashimura / W3C Multimodal & Voice Activity Lead mailto: ashimura@w3.org voice: +81.466.49.1170 / fax: +81.466.49.1171
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