1597978 - Some British English pronunciations are badly understood by the voice recognition system

Status: NEW

(Core :: Web Speech, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Note

• Some British English pronunciations of words are badly understood by the Web Speech API.

Affected versions

• Nightly v72.0a1
• The Web Speech API is not yet present on other channels

Affected platforms

• all

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the browser and flip the following prefs to "true":

• media.webspeech.recognition.enable
• media.webspeech.recognition.force_enable

2. Go to https://translate.google.com/
3. Select English as the input language, click the mic button and speak any of the following words into the microphone with a British English accent:

• fertile
• laboratory
• garage
• bathroom
• premier
• vitamin
• path

Expected result

• The voice recognition system should properly return the correct string.

Actual result

• It appears that a quite a few tries are needed until the correct string is returned

Additional notes

• Most of these issues do not occur on the Chrome browser.
• More terms will be added in comments when they are found.
• Not sure whether this should be considered a defect or an enhancement.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:anatal, could you have a look please?

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