Speech specification, Sync tag and Absolute timing

[amarshal]

It seems the latest version of the speech behavior lost its table of core attributes.  As such, I'm not able to answer a question I have about absolute timing of speech.

The examples seem to imply the that the time attribute has been removed from the standard <sync> element.  I can understand why this might be the case, but it seems counter to allowing absolute timing on the standard sync-point attributes.

For example:

Code:

<speech start="3.0">
  <text>
    Hi
  </text>
</speech>

seems valid, but not:

Code:

<speech>
  <text>
    <sync id="T0" time="3.0"/>Hi
  </text>
</speech>

Is this intentional?  If so, why?

[herwin]

If I remember correctly, this wasn't done intentionally. However, I'd rather not allow absolute (or relative) timing in sync points in the speech text. What exactly do you try to achieve with your second example? Create a sync point 3 seconds after the speech starts? Or wait 3 seconds after speech start, then say hi? Or link it to bml:start+3?