[html4all] phonetic of some word or name

[aurélien levy]

Apparently this idea was already in other spec :
- css3 speech module
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/#phonetic-props
- phoneme element in SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20070904/#S3.1.10
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> I agree that's a good idea. A Japanese friend told me that he uses the
> Ruby Annotation Model [1] from the XHTML 1.1 suite to provide phonetic
> pronunciations. The downside is that it's only rendered correctly in
> IE (from IE5, I think), and IE doesn't support the correct MIME type
> for XHTML 1.1. But maybe Ruby notation could be incorporated in HTML 5
> (at least it's a cowpath that leads to somewhere useful).
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/
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> Gez
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