DE: comments on 5.1.3.14 Spoken languages (Tab 5, Item 17, row 18)
Submitted on behalf of Digital Europe as part of #55.
Where speech output is provided as non-visual access to closed functionality, speech output shall be in the same human language as the displayed content provided, except:
a) for proper names, technical terms, words of indeterminate language, and words or phrases that have become part of the vernacular of the immediately surrounding text;
b) where the content is generated externally and not under the control of the ICT vendor, the present clause shall not be required to apply for languages not supported by the ICT's speech synthesizer;
c) for displayed languages that cannot be selected using non-visual access;
d) where the user explicitly selects a speech language that is different from the language of the displayed content.
e) Where ICT is a TV, the TTS language library can have a dependency on other vendors or regions. Therefore a minimum of but not limited to 7 languages should be supported by the TV speech synthesiser to include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch. The capability to add additional languages can be possible.
DE Comments:
Risk of OSD language is supported but the TTS engine does not contain support for that language.