gender voice variants

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 23:16:09 CET 2012


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Peter Constable
<petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:
> I think "neutral" (not "neuter") is a reasonable concept: I may have UI strings/content in which I try to tailor for the audience, but others in which I am intentionally not differentiating, or for which there is no distinction to be made.
>
> That said, it may be that a variant subtag for 'neutral' (assuming we conclude that it's a good thing to capture gender distinctions in variant subtags in the first place) might not be needed: it may be sufficient to reflect that by the absence of any male/female variant subtag.

Yes, "neutral" form should have the tag; and I think that it could
have important role.


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