Re: PROPOSAL: Issue 361

Charles,
What happens is that the user agent can enumerate a number of voice labels 
that are typically made available to users as a list of voice 
options.  Each voice label has its own pitch range and other voice filter 
parameters that determine the "sound" and "accent" of the voice (i.e adult 
male, child female, robotic...).  Usually features like average pitch and 
speech rate can be adjusted within a voice label, but the other voice 
filtering parameters like pitch range, stress and richness cannot be 
adjusted within the label. Therefore the voice label confounds these later 
voice filter parameters since they cannot be adjusted manually, and 
typically if you allow the user to adjust these filters manually they can 
easily set filter parameters that result in unstable speech filters (i.e. 
noise rather than speech is generated).  But I would leave it to the 
editors to find the right words.

Jon


At 10:12 AM 11/23/2000 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>Confound means to me that they make it very difficult. Do you mean compound
>or combine?
>
>If so, this makes good sense to me.
>
>cheers
>
>Chaals
>
>On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Jon Gunderson wrote:
>
>   I suggest that we do not change checkpoint 4.14 (other than for other
>   resolved changes for adding language), but add the following note after the
>   checkpoint.
>
>   [NEW]
>   Note: Many speech synthesizers confound the specification of voice gender,
>   pitch range, stress, richness in named voice labels that use pitch range,
>   stress and richness parameters to help create different voice sounds (i.e
>   adult male, child female, robot voice).  When using these synthesizers make
>   available the full range of voices.
>   [/NEW]
>
>   Jon
>
>   Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
>   Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
>   Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL  61820

Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248

E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu

WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund
WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua

Received on Monday, 27 November 2000 11:02:28 UTC