1722193 - The words "authentique" and "authenticité" are not read properly in reader mode in French

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Web Speech, defect)

Description

[Henri de Solages]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Steps to reproduce:

I had that page
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/fr/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20160319_amoris-laetitia.html
read loudly by reader mode.

Actual results:

In the words "authentique" (appearing for instance in paragraph 34) and "authenticité" (paragraph 33), the "th" is read as an English "th" ([θ] in the International phonetic alphabet).

Expected results:

In the words "authentique" and "authenticité", "th" should be read as a "t" ([t] in the International phonetic alphabet).

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Reader Mode' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Reader mode relies on the browser's web speech interface and the voices and languages supported by the OS. At least on macOS, I get French voices for the examples here, and any issues with the pronunciation or choice of vocalisation of punctuation and abbreviation is probably something to be taken up with the relevant speech libraries on Linux. On macOS, for instance, « » are not pronounced at all, authentique is pronounced correctly, and cf is indeed pronounced confer. Hopefully the triage owners in the web speech component know how to gather the relevant speech library details and direct these reports to the correct upstream repository/component/bugtracker.