What does "correct pronunciation" mean?

[mitchellevan]

This question alone could be a PhD thesis. For purposes of this investigation, we're looking for some okay approximations depending on context.

Context: conformance to standards

Example of this context: where you can't check the source code

Working assumption: announced phonemes match the language's pronunciation rules and dictionary pronuncation keys, except for homographs and rare words

(How rare?)

Context: pragmatic accessibility

This is a usability question. I predict the answer will be highly variable depending on many factors such as:

• frequency and type of linguistic errors in the speech output
• user's language skills
• user's screen reader experience in the particular combination of language and synthesizer voice
• speech rate
• hearing acuity and audio environment
• nature of the intellectual or interactive task

There's probably some existing research on this.

I'll also ask a couple of users.