====== CSS Speech Module Level 3 ====== * undated publication URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech * current status: Last Call Working Draft (18/08/2011) http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-speech-20110818 * latest editor's draft: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-speech/ * issue tracker: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/products/29 ===== Last Call Working Draft, Disposition of Comments ===== * dated publication URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-speech-20110818 * announcement on public "www-style" mailing-list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Aug/0550.html **Closure states**: an issue can be closed as ''Accepted'', ''OutOfScope'', ''Invalid'', ''Rejected'', or ''Retracted''. **Color nomenclature**: (''Verified'' indicates commentor's acceptance of the response): ^ Color ^ Description ^ | ISSUE X | Accepted or Rejected [Verified] | | ISSUE X | Rejected [not Verified] | | ISSUE X | OutOfScope or Invalid [not Verified] | | ISSUE X | Formal Objection | . ---- ==== ISSUE 1 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 1: interaction between the 'voice-volume' property and the loudness of 'cue' properties ;Status : CLOSED [Accepted] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: clarify multiple informative statements that misleadingly firmly associate SSML features with CSS-Speech properties + correct editorial glitch which results in a whole paragraph being normative rather than informative + improve (shorten) the said informative paragraph (as per the email proposal). (Note, WG was waiting for commenter's reply, see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0719.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-11-23 ) ;Raised By : Paul Bagshaw (Co-author of SSML 1.1 and PLS 1.0) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Aug/0494.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0189.html ;Comment 2 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0503.html ;Response 2 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0507.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0526.html (heads-up #1) ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0554.html (heads-up #2) ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0805.html (heads-up #3 with summarised proposal) ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Dec/0081.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ Verified) ---- ==== Issue 2 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 2: 'languages' attribute needed for voice selection with the 'voice-family' property ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] (deferred) ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: defer to later revision due to technical considerations in Level 3 (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0482.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-12 ) ;Raised By : Paul Bagshaw (Co-author of SSML 1.1 and PLS 1.0) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Aug/0495.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0107.html ;Comment 2 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0502.html ;Response 2 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0505.html ;Comment 3 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0510.html ;Response 3 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0512.html ;Comment 4 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0513.html ;Response 4 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0515.html ;Comment 5 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0516.html ;Response 5 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0517.html ;Comment 6 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0519.html ;Response 6 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0520.html ;Response 7 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0518.html ;Response 8 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0510.html ;Comment 7 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0511.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ;Remarks : voice-language solution, similar to http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-language-override-prop, as [[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011May/0033.html|illustrated by Fantasai]]: ''voice-language: auto | | inherit; inherited: yes; computed value: as specified; with auto => The used value is taken from the language of the selected element, or some UA-chosen value if unknown. The computed value is the keyword 'auto'.'' ---- ==== Issue 3 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 3: Renaming the 'voice-volume' property to 'volume-voice' ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: do not rename property, to preserve consistency (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Christoph Päper ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Aug/0552.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0109.html (proposal: reject renaming) ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0525.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0606.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0499.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 4 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 4: Not dropping the "at-risk" voice-* properties ;Status : CLOSED [Invalid] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: "at-risk" is just an indication of risk, not the intent to drop the feature (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Gregory Rosmaita ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0010.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0019.html ;REMARK : commenter is not available to confirm, but the WG resolution is aligned with the commenter's position, so the issue can safely be marked ''Verified''. ---- ==== Issue 5 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 5: 'voice-rate' percentages ;Status : CLOSED [Accepted] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: make a minor editorial improvement using the terms "slower" and "faster" to clarify the use of percentages, and to fix the typo "multiplied by 1.2" versus "one and a half times the speaking rate". (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Gregory Rosmaita ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0011.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0411.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0608.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0617.html (proposed prose update) ;REMARK : commenter is not available to confirm, but the WG resolution is aligned with the commenter's position, so the issue can safely be marked ''Verified''. ---- ==== Issue 6 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 6: 'play-during' or equivalent property ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] (deferred) ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: reject 'play-during' feature request, possibly deferred to next major revision (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Gregory Rosmaita ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0012.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0423.html (agree with design decision to exclude 'play-during', reject need to re-introduce it) ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0609.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;REMARK : commenter is not available to confirm, but the WG resolution is aligned with a well-established design decision since the very early days (pre-2004 Working Draft) of the CSS Speech Module Level 3, so we think that the issue can be confidently marked ''Verified''. ---- ==== Issue 7 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 7: use of generic SPAN element in voice-stress example and client-side use question ;Status : CLOSED [Accepted] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: make a minor editorial improvement so that the example uses 'em' instead of 'span'. However, the HTML default user-agent stylesheet remains out-of-scope (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Gregory Rosmaita ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0013.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0414.html ;Remark : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0422.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0610.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;REMARK : commenter is not available to confirm, but the WG resolution is aligned with the commenter's position, so the issue can safely be marked ''Verified''. ---- ==== Issue 8 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 8: no longdesc for the aural formatting model diagram ;Status : CLOSED [Accepted] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: make minor editorial edit to link the diagram to the paragraph above it, using aria:described-by and/or by editing the @alt attribute. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Gregory Rosmaita ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0015.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0412.html ;REMARK : commenter is not available to confirm, but the WG resolution is aligned with the commenter's position, so the issue can safely be marked ''Verified''. ---- ==== Issue 9 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 9: Appendix B — Index: why such cryptic hyperlink text? ;Status : CLOSED [Accepted] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: fix the automatically-generated index, which will improve all the CSS specifications. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Gregory Rosmaita ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0016.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0407.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0611.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;REMARK : commenter is not available to confirm, but the WG resolution is aligned with the commenter's position, so the issue can safely be marked ''Verified''. ---- ==== Issue 10 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 10: aural/speech events/modifications cued by ARIA properties/attributes ;Status : CLOSED [OutOfScope] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: out-of-scope (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : Gregory Rosmaita ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0017.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0415.html (valid remark, but out-of-scope) ;REMARK : commenter is not available to confirm, but the WG resolution is not conflictual with regards to the commenter's position, so the issue can safely be marked ''Verified''. ---- ==== Issue 11 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 11: relative 'voice-volume' values (e.g. Louder / Softer) ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: reject "louder" and "softer" keywords, but agree to improve informative prose (examples) for decibel offsets (as well as for 'voice-rate' percentages) (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0528.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0613.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0783.html (James Craig is okay with current specification regarding user-configurable values for volume keywords) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 12 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 12: 'voice-volume' property's 'silent' value ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: keep the 'silent' value as-is (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0529.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0614.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0784.html (acceptance by James Craig ) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 13 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 13: 'speak' and 'speak-as' properties ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: keep the two 'speak' properties separated (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0527.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0615.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0782.html (James Craig will file an issue for iOS5 to support the split 'speak' properties) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 14 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 14: 'pause-before' and 'pause-after' properties ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: not to add restrictions on time values (good authoring practices are out-of-scope). Media Queries, Media Types / Features are out-of-scope too. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0607.html or http://log.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-10-19 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0537.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0616.html (notification of Working Group consensus / resolution) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 15 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 15: 'cue-before' and 'cue-after' properties (named sound icons, such as "warning", "error", etc.) ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] (deferred) ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: new feature to consider for future level/revision. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0719.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-11-23 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0535.html ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 16 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 16: 'voice-family' property's 'preserve' value ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] (deferred) ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: reject dropping of 'preserve' value. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0719.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-11-23 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0534.html ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 17 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 17: 'voice-duration' property's 'time' value ;Status : CLOSED [Invalid] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: authoring guidelines on value ranges (constraints) are out-of-scope. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0719.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-11-23 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0509.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0518.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0521.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0547.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0555.html ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0556.html (Paul Bagshaw describes a use-case for forcing the duration of a TTS prompt) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') ---- ==== Issue 18 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 18: 'voice-stress' property renaming to 'voice-emphasis' ;Status : CLOSED [Rejected] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: reject property renaming. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0719.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-11-23 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0506.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0552.html (Heads-up #1) ---- ==== Issue 19 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 19: Remarks and questions (request for clarifications), not actual issues. ;Status : CLOSED [Invalid] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: not actual specification issue. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0719.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-11-23 ) ;Raised By : Robert Brown (involved with, but not representing the HTML Speech Working Group) ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0523.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0527.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0538.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0505.html ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0559.html (commenter's agreement => ''Verified'') ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0084.html (side note about relationship with HTML Speech XG) ---- ==== Issue 20 ==== ;Summary : ISSUE 20: Not dropping the "at-risk" 'voice-balance' property ;Status : CLOSED [Invalid] ;Resolution : __Working Group consensus__: not actual specification issue. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0719.html or http://logs.csswg.org/irc.w3.org/css/?date=2011-11-23 ) ;Raised By : PF-WG, Janina Sajka and James Craig ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0446.html ;Response : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0504.html ;Comment : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0291.html (commenter's agreement ⇒ ''Verified'') [similar issue to 'voice-duration'property] ---- ---- ===== Testing, Reference Implementations ===== ==== Existing Prototypal or Semi-Complete Implementations ==== (support for "aural" and/or "speech" stylesheets, as per the CSS2.1 appendix and/or the previous CSS3-Speech drafts, respectively) Note that this topic is tracked on the public CSS emailing list (feel free to contribute there): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Mar/0389.html ;Opera : implements some of CSS3-Speech (and non-deprecated CSS2.1 Aural Stylesheets features): http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto25/css/properties/ (the documentation lists speech properties up to Opera engine Presto v2.5, see here: http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/productspecs/ ) ;EmacSpeak : implements CSS Aural Stylesheets: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net ;FireVox : implements some CSS Speech features (has its own CSS parser, because Firefox doesn't support CSS Speech/Aural features), see http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/demos/css_demo.html and http://clc4tts.clcworld.net/css_technical.html ;WebKit : implements support for the "speak" property in its core, and I think that there is platform-level support through the accessibility layer (Mac OS X only ?). See http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/platform/mac/accessibility/css-speech-speak.html and https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46827 (partially supported by VoiceOver in the iOS5 betas) ;FormsPlayer (now "ubiquity-xforms", included in "backplanebx") : for Internet Explorer, provides prosody control via CSS properties (voice, volume, rate, pitch). See http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=speak+package:http://ubiquity-xforms-cpp\.googlecode\.com and http://code.google.com/p/backplanebx/source/browse/XFormsProcessor/content/XFormsProcessor/chrome/ ;Mozilla Gecko : property parsing, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525444 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47159 ;Internet Explorer 9 : "does not support any of the CSS3 speech properties": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(v=vs.85).aspx#speech ==== Points of Interest ==== ;Google Chrome (WebKit) : "TTS engine" extension, ChromeVox, SSML support, see http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/ttsEngine.html and http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tts.html and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn and http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-text-to-speech-api-for-chrome.html and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2011Nov/0022.html . Also see IDPF's Readium extension (open-source EPUB reader), at http://readium.org/ ; WebKit core : support for the Javascript TTS API, see http://speech-javascript-api-spec.googlecode.com/git/speechapi.html and this code changeset: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109667 ;Mozilla Firefox (Gecko) : native TTS API? See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687879 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525444 ==== Test Suite ==== Related public email discussion: * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jun/0789.html * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jun/0791.html ===== Cross-cutting concerns, collaboration opportunities ===== ==== Unified / centralized sound mixer ==== * Complete, original message on [public-audio@w3.org] (Audio Working Group): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2011OctDec/0039.html * Forwarded message (and response) on [www-style@w3.org] (CSS) and [public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org] (HTML Speech): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0575.html * Potential additional group contacts? [public-html-comments@w3.org] (HTML5), others? ==== HTML5 default user-agent CSS speech stylesheet ==== * Original request: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0013.html * Group to involve: [public-html-comments@w3.org] (HTML5), [www-style@w3.org] (CSS), [w3c-html-cg@w3.org] (Hypertext Coordination Group), others? ==== CSS speech authoring guidelines, good practices ==== * Request for special ARIA handling: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0017.html * Other related requests (limits on volume, rate, pause/rest durations, etc.): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0368.html * Group to involve: [w3c-wai-gl@w3.org] (WAI Content Guidelines, WCAG), [w3c-wai-pf@w3.org] (WAI Protocol And Formats), [wai-liaison@w3.org] (WAI Liaison), [www-style@w3.org] (CSS), others?