[Accessibility] Re: Updated requirements document

[Peter Korn]

Hi Milan,

Thank you for your work, and that of Willie Walker, on requirements and 
pushing this forward.

In your list of interpretations, there is one key one you missed (and which is 
at least personally the issue in my case): that other burning issues of the 
moment are taking all of the bandwidth that might otherwise be devoted to this 
topic that we certainly do care about.

I'm sorry I don't have any specific feedback to the good discussions going on 
here.


Peter

Milan Zamazal wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'd like to ask whether there is still interest among us in building the
> common speech output system, in the sense of active participation?  I'm
> not sure how to interpret the silence here last weeks after Willie
> Walker and I have rewritten the requirements document.  Possible
> interpretations are:
> 
> a. The issue is no longer interesting.  (Unlikely.)
> 
> b. The issue appeared to be too difficult to solve.  (Are separate
>    incompatible solutions easier?)
> 
> c. Everyone expects that someone else steps in and does the work.
>    (Which is a typical deadlock situation, so guess what happens in such
>    a case...)
> 
> d. People forgot to subscribe here.  (But I can see 23 subscribers here,
>    including most people from the former private conversation.)
> 
> e. The rewritten requirements document is too difficult to read.  (Why
>    not to ask for clarification to help it improve then?)
> 
> f. There are great ideas among us, but we haven't managed to present
>    them here yet and to contribute to the requirements document so that
>    it could be finished.  (Please speak up if this is the case!)
> 
> g. All people here think everything has already been solved.
> 
> More about g. :-) I think we succeeded to agree on the basic requirement
> set.  But I can see two major obstacles preventing further work on the
> document:
> 
> - It is still unclear to me, whether SSML as defined by the current W3C
>   standard can serve as a good input format able to express the
>   requirements on the synthesis.
> 
> - I have no good idea about the way the audio output should be sent from
>   the synthesizer if we ever want to use index marks.
> 
> Well?  What do you think about that all? ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Milan Zamazal
>