[Kde-accessibility] XML... I think

[Pupeno]

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On Friday 10 January 2003 08:21, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Pupeno and all:
>
> We (the gnome-speech folks) looked very hard at Sable too, but in the
> end ruled it out; I believe this was mostly because it appears to be a
> dead-end that was superceded by VoiceXML.
Yes, I thought the same, but VoiceXML is aimed at a greater goal of descriv=
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what's going to be said and what's going to be answered in a conversation=20
enviroment (I did some work with VXML).

> It is however very similar to JSML (and VoiceXML is building on JSML
> too).  VoiceXML had some potential licensing issues at one time (around
> RAND) but I understand these have been solved, i.e. the upcoming
> standards versions will be truly free.
I didn't know about the liscensing issues.

> I would strongly encourage you to aim for compatibility with
> gnome-speech, whose upcoming version will be use JSML-2 .  Note that the
> w3c is developing the standards in this area now (after Sun's submission
> of JSML to the w3c as a proposed standard), and they are working on this
> new version of JSML for their "Voice Browser" project.
>
> So of the available competing standards, JSML (or its next incarnation
> via the w3c) is the one which w3c is focussing on for its own
> accessibility work, and the one which gnome-speech will use.
Yeah, but supporting JSML would be just support the language tags, since th=
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rest is completly managed by the TTS iteself and Festival doesn't support=20
JSML. Is FreeTTS supporting JSML ? who/what is supporting JSML now ? (A plu=
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in for FreeTTS is planed, in fact, the skeleton is there, but I didn't do=20
anything because Java is a pain, specially, when you want a 'normal'=20
distribution).
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