W3C held its third Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML). The Workshop was held at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Hyderabad, India, jointly hosted by Bhrigus Software and IIIT. As a result, various requirements on SSML extensions for Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern speech synthesis were identified and prioritized.
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CfP: http://www.w3.org/2006/10/SSML/cfp.html