Microsoft is open to adding this to the WebApps charter. We certainly want to see work on a speech API for user agents proceed at W3C. Our priorities for the API are 1) a procedural (JavaScript) API and 2) a declarative syntax for speech recognition and text-to-speech in HTML. We think WebApps would be a good venue to bring speech to the attention of members who wouldn't normally participate in this area. On the other hand we recognise that there may be some members who are interested in moving speech forward but who might not be willing to make IPR commitments for other specifications that WebApps works on. If that is the case then we'd rather have them involved in a separate working group than not benefit from their contributions.
Cheers, Adrian. On Friday, January 20, 2012 12:58 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote: > The deadline for comments is extended to January *24*. > > On 1/20/12 6:55 AM, ext Arthur Barstow wrote: > > The deadline for comments is extended to January. > > > > Andrian, Maciej - I would appreciate it you would please provide some > > feedback on this CfC. > > > > On 1/12/12 7:31 AM, ext Arthur Barstow wrote: > >> Glen Shires and some others at Google proposed [1] that WebApps add > >> Speech API to WebApps' charter and they put forward the Speech > >> Javascript API Specification [2] as as a starting point. Members of > >> Mozilla and Nuance have voiced various levels of support for this > >> proposal. As such, this is a Call for Consensus to add Speech API to > >> WebApps' charter. > >> > >> Positive response to this CfC is preferred and encouraged and silence > >> will be considered as agreeing with the proposal. The deadline for > >> comments is January 19 and all comments should be sent to > >> public-webapps at w3.org. > >> > >> -AB > >> > >> [1] > >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1696.ht > >> ml > >> [2] > >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/att-169 > >> 6/speechapi.html > >> > >
