Re: [Test Reliability] Minutes of Test Reliability meeting of 17 May 2022

Hello Test Reliability Sub-Group,

Thank you for sharing your most recent meeting minutes. Upon review of the
proposed "Pronunciation" work, I wonder aloud if the naming there is
correct.

Will this requirement (for example) reference the pronunciation of
individual words or phrases - the use-cases
<https://www.w3.org/TR/spoken-html/#introduction> that the current
Pronunciation
Task Force <https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/> of
the Accessible
Platform Architectures Working Group is working on, which is a subset of Speech
Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) <https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/>?
The goal of that group is to ensure the proper pronunciation of individual
words, which I do not suspect is the larger goal you are working towards,
but it is not clear at this time as you are just starting to work on the
draft document
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nyywZUpB_MjwnjwoLvMW38Mzbru9zftuom_YRDXnScE/edit#heading=h.m3tjcg5jj3eu>
.

Nonetheless, if the goal of this effort is not the same as the work being
done by the Pronunciation Task Force, might it not be worth considering a
name change for this effort? Based on my watching this activity from a
distance, is not the current goal more around ensuring proper
language packs [sic] are loaded for TTS engines? Might that not then be
considered "Language Accuracy" (TTS Accuracy?) as opposed to
"Pronunciation"? (Just trying to avoid a term-of-art collision/confusion
down the road).

My unsolicited $0.02 worth.

JF

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:08 AM Jeanne Spellman <
jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com> wrote:

> == Summary ==
>
>    - We reviewed the proposed survey on the Outcome and Method for
>    Pronunciation and suggested some minor edits for accuracy to the
>    Background.
>    - We created a new How-To document from the template and assigned
>    sections to work on. We ended early to give ourselves some time to work.
>
> == Minutes ==
>
> https://www.w3.org/2022/05/17-silver-reliability-minutes.html
>


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