Introductory Pronunciation Video: https://www.w3.org/2020/10/TPAC/apa-pronunciation.html

Screen reader users, as well as "read aloud" assistive technology users
(such as persons living with dyslexia) have long put up with some pretty
horrendous pronunciation from text to speech (TTS) engines. This becomes
more than simply annoying, however, in circumstances such as timed
academic test taking (such as the LSAT that is used in law school
applications).

We are now on the verge of writing a specification for First Public
Working Draft (FPWD) publication specifying an approach to close this
gap for accessibility.

However, we need to decide between two candidate approaches.

1.) We have at least one candidate approach that will serve
accessibility requirements well. This could be the end of the story.

2.) However, it seems to us there's need of an approach that's more
widely applicable across the industry now that we've moved into an era
of voice computing with major platforms like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's
Siri, Google's Assistant, and Microsoft's cortana. Our forthcoming video
will illustrate an SSML based approach we believe could work for us and
the wider industry.

The question is whether (or not) there is interest in pursuing a more generally applicable specification? This is what
we want to discuss with you during TPAC.

What we would need from WHAT: The more widely applicable approach would require admitting a subset of SSML markup into the HTML specification with the same kind of status as currently exists for XVG and MathML.

It looks like @hadleybeeman and @atanassov at the minimum can make this.

Hi @becka11y we haven't been able to be there for today's discussion (due to availability of participants) but we can definitely make tomorrow's one (this request). Hopefully we can use the time to discuss both issues. Can you please update your meeting page to reflect that Friday's TAG joint meeting is confirmed and to let us know the call details? Thanks.

We can use the apa standard call information for the Friday meeting. Find it at https://www.w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_apa-tpac