[X3D-Public] Integrating Speech Synthesis into X3D Systems

[Len Bullard]

What would be the impact on the utility of real-time 3D if SSML were
integrated into simple X3D avatar authoring utilities?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/PR-speech-synthesis11-20100223/

For dispatch systems, user interfaces should include animated warnings.
Voice synthesis would be perfect because then it is authored for rewriting.
Rerecording is always more expensive than rewriting, so even if the eventual
piece is replaced by a human reader, when developing the speech, speech
synthesis can do for the written text what midi does for musical
composition.  Better development, better lifecycle, better maintenance and
finally, better upgrades and adaptation of the original speeches into new
contexts.

len