– DRAFT –
Spoken Pronunciation Task Force Teleconference

we'll cancel next week's meeting due to numerous conflicts

Agenda Review, Membership & Announcements

no meeting next week

Action Items

https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/track/actions/open

ACTION: janina to followup with i18n an a more appropriate spec for TTS designations (re: RFC5646)

<trackbot> Created ACTION-38 - Followup with i18n an a more appropriate spec for tts designations (re: rfc5646) [on Janina Sajka - due 2022-03-16].

Github Issues and examples

Other Business

Mark introduced Sarah Wood this week.

Still waiting on status. janina to followup

MIT no longer wants to host W3C and looking to make changes by the end of the year.

janina: there is still room to participate from members and invited experts if you like

janina: minutes are being corrected and will be distributed soon

mhakkinen: ICCHP conference (Summer) has opportunities for groups to create a session.

mhakkinen: this could be a good venue to pitch our work to the European audience

mhakkinen: it's in Northern Italy

<Irfan> https://icchp-aaate.org/

mhakkinen: let me know if you want to connect with Klaus about organizing something

<Dee> Link to Key Dates: https://icchp-aaate.org/key-dates-22

mhakkinen: I tried Amazon polly with IPA markup for inserting pauses. It doesn't seem to work.

https://gist.github.com/AutoSponge/f68870d00b73eaccecb451eef4c3da1d

<mhakkinen> Extended IPA: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/sites/default/files/extIPAChart2008.pdf

SteveNoble: are you actively testing other technologies?

mhakkinen: I'm not, did you want to do that work (joking)?

reminder: https://w3c.github.io/pronunciation/gap-analysis_and_use-case/#gap-analysis, our priority feature list excludes emphasis, voice family/gender, and rate/pitch/volume

<mhakkinen> Amazon Textract/Polly reader: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/enable-the-visually-impaired-to-hear-documents-using-amazon-textract-and-amazon-polly/