W3C

– DRAFT –
Pronunciation Task Force Meeting, Monday Oct 16, 2023

16 October 2023

Attendees

Present
Alan, Dee, IrfanAli, PaulG
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
PaulG

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review, Membership & Announcements

Pausing Use Cases

<IrfanAli> PaulG: Alan sent a couple of examples

previous discussions were around making more compelling use case examples for pause/break because that's not currently something that browser/AT vendors have strong will to implement. They report it will be difficult

our top 5 features we need implemented are: lang, phoneme, substitution, say-as, pausing

https://github.com/w3c/pronunciation/wiki/%5BDRAFT%5D-ARIA-Counter-Proposal

the first example deals with semantic structures and how they appear aurally, pausing can help disambiguate the meaning for the user

internet example: I enjoy cooking, my family, and my pets. Without the commas or spontaneous pausing, this sentence sounds horrific.

https://www.thoughtco.com/pause-speech-and-writing-1691492

disambiguation, time for processing...

we may need to make the fraction example more complicated to be about disambiguation. Otherwise it seems more about allowing processing time (like joke telling)

The last example from Dee is about spelling out a word. This example seems more appropriate for say-as.
… and how content designers will/can use break/pause when say-as isn't available.

IrfanAli: I'll take care of moving the examples to the wiki

Action Items

https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-gap-analysis-and-use-cases/#say-as

Github Issues and examples

Other Business

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