
 Participants in the second 
Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) have published their 
minutes and 
report. Speech and linguistics experts met on 30-31 May in Heraklion, Crete to study improvements to 
SSML for Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages such as Arabic, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Slovenian. W3C thanks 
FORTH for hosting. Read the 
press release, 
join W3C and visit the 
voice home page. 
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