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Originally Posted by Doitsu

Actually, the IDPF recommends the very syntax that Gregg Bell used. You really might want to refrain from posting unfounded statements.

Great find.

Originally Posted by davidfor

The other thing it should do is trigger the appropriate dictionary in the ereader. On the Kobo ereaders, selecting a word like this will show the meaning from the language dictionary or the translation dictionary

Have you actually tested similar code to this on a Kobo? Does it automatically select the Spanish dictionary or a Spanish -> English translation?

I would also be interested if any of the Android readers (or iBooks?) implement different voices for English/Spanish text-to-speech.

EPUB3 Note: I know EPUB3 also tried to introduce a lot of the CSS3 voice stuff (like specifying Male/Female)... but not too sure how prevalent this stuff is in actual reading systems:

https://idpf.github.io/a11y-guidelin...ts/speech.html

Also, some markup + lang/xml:lang code might also allow you to introduce text-to-speech with American English (Male/Female), British English (Male/Female), Spanish, [...]. I could see something like that being helpful in a play... or your typical book.