Media Handling

Media Handling

Groups that may be interested in this topic:

1. Multimodal Interaction Working Group
2. Voice Browser Working Group
3. Web and TV Interest Group
4. Audio Working Group
5. RTC Working Group
6. HTML5 Working Group
7. WAI-PF

Possible General Requirements

1. Accessibility
2. DRM management
3. Consistency between audio and video handling
4. Hiding low level details from web developers

MMI Requirements

1. As close to real time as possible for audio uploading, because it will primarily be the user's speech
2. Privacy, also because the audio will primarily be the user's speech
3. Some kind of ability to authorize access to the user's speech, videos, or images
4. As close to real time as possible for audio downloads, because they will primarily be the system's side of a dialog, and slow downloads can disrupt an interaction
5. Support for a variety of formats commonly used in speech recognizers
6. Support for compressed formats to minimize transmission time