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Motivation for SSML in HTML over CSS Speech #99

Open zcorpan opened 2 years ago

zcorpan commented 2 years ago

Embedding SSML in HTML seems to violate the Separation of Concerns design principle for HTML. What is the motivation?

I see issue #90 which cites lack of features in CSS Speech.

I see https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-explainer/#non-goals which says

Not trying to create a new speech presentation standard Not trying to resurrect CSS Speech (incomplete solution in any case)

I'm not so satisfied with these to justify the direction of adding presentational markup to HTML.

AutoSponge commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the comments. Our meetings at TPAC will involve further discussion of this topic. We did discuss this with CSS and referenced it in our gap analysis document. We'll also have the opportunity to revisit this with CSS WG directly and further develop all appropriate specs as needed. More to come.

pkra commented 2 years ago

I'm not so satisfied with these to justify the direction of adding presentational markup to HTML.

Just a bystander here. "Presentational" struck me as odd. For my primary uses case, providing pronunciation information is about enriching semantically, e.g., to clarify heteronyms.