Sounds good, I've opened a TAG issue for this here: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1121
Please let me know if you have any other feedback! On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM Dan Clark <thedancl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for these updates! > > I think it's kind of borderline whether there's enough complexity here to > merit a TAG review. My preference is to go ahead and request one in case > they do have feedback. > > -- Dan > > On Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 12:59:03 PM UTC-7 Evan Liu wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. Addressing your points: >> >> *Design Doc Access:* The original document contains some internal >> information that can't be shared. I've created a public version of the >> design document that you can access here: >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CBH4r6rxSryY28hOhBQC-DZgjwWbO-FRYg_bbJIfBFo >> >> *TAG Review:* Given the relatively small scope of this API addition, I >> initially didn't think a TAG review was necessary. However, I'm happy to >> request one if you think it would be beneficial. >> >> *Gecko Position:* We've been working closely with Mozilla on this design >> (pad...@mozilla.com is a collaborator on the spec change >> <https://github.com/WebAudio/web-speech-api/pull/145>). I can ask him to >> add a formal position to the thread to make it official. >> >> *WebKit Feedback & WPT Coverage:* Thanks for the suggestion. I've just >> updated the WebKit thread to reflect the latest changes. >> >> Regarding test coverage, the end-to-end tests are currently manual >> because the test environment has limitations in accessing the necessary >> on-device models. I'll look into ways to improve our automated test >> coverage and will add more tests for edge cases and error handling. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Evan >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM Daniel Clark <dan...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> >>> > Design docs >>> > >>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AW9DxKYNfnt_wruxmd-_M1islS-MgsUVpaNBen-XvHk >>> I don’t have access to this document. Could it be made available to >>> non-Googlers? >>> >>> *> TAG review* >>> > None >>> >>> Can you say why no TAG review? >>> >>> > *Gecko*: Positive ( >>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1255) >>> >>> I don’t see Gecko taking any position on that thread. >>> >>> > *WebKit*: No signal ( >>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/517) >>> >>> Thanks for engaging with Marcos’ feedback on the WebKit thread. It >>> looks like most of his feedback has now been addressed, so you might >>> consider sending a ping giving that update, with the context that you’re >>> now requesting this to ship in Chromium. >>> >>> *> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?* >>> > Yes >>> > >>> https://wpt.fyi/results/speech-api?label=experimental&label=master&aligned >>> >>> I couldn’t find much test coverage at this link for this addition -- >>> just the one line in >>> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/speech-api/SpeechRecognition-basics.https.html >>> that >>> confirms the phrases array exists and is initially empty. I did see >>> there was an end-to-end manual test at >>> https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/speech-api/SpeechRecognition-phrases-manual.https.html >>> which >>> is great. Maybe there’s more that can be added as automated coverage >>> though? For example an automated WPT could check that >>> SpeechRecognitionPhrases can be constructed, that they can be assigned to >>> phrases, that boost values outside of the 0.0-10.0 range throw errors, >>> etc. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Dan >>> >>> *From: *blin...@chromium.org <blin...@chromium.org> on behalf of >>> Chromestatus <ad...@cr-status.appspotmail.com> >>> *Date: *Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM >>> *To: *blin...@chromium.org <blin...@chromium.org> >>> *Cc: *ev...@google.com <ev...@google.com>, y...@google.com < >>> y...@google.com> >>> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] [blink-dev] Intent to Ship: Web Speech API >>> contextual biasing >>> >>> Contact emails >>> y...@google.com, ev...@google.com >>> >>> Explainer >>> >>> https://github.com/WebAudio/web-speech-api/blob/main/explainers/contextual-biasing.md >>> >>> Specification >>> https://webaudio.github.io/web-speech-api/#speechreco-phraselist >>> >>> Design docs >>> >>> >>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AW9DxKYNfnt_wruxmd-_M1islS-MgsUVpaNBen-XvHk >>> >>> Summary >>> >>> This feature enables websites to support contextual biasing for speech >>> recognition by adding a recognition phrase list to the Web Speech API. >>> Developers can provide a list of phrases as well as updating them to apply >>> a bias to the speech recognition models in favor of those phrases. This >>> helps improve accuracy and relevance for domain-specific and personalized >>> speech recognition. >>> >>> >>> Blink component >>> Blink>Speech >>> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ESpeech%22> >>> >>> Search tags >>> speech <http:///features#tags:speech>, recognition >>> <http:///features#tags:recognition>, local <http:///features#tags:local>, >>> offline <http:///features#tags:offline>, on-device >>> <http:///features#tags:on-device>, contextual >>> <http:///features#tags:contextual>, biasing >>> <http:///features#tags:biasing> >>> >>> TAG review >>> None >>> >>> TAG review status >>> Pending >>> >>> Risks >>> >>> >>> Interoperability and Compatibility >>> >>> None >>> >>> >>> *Gecko*: Positive ( >>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1255) >>> >>> *WebKit*: No signal ( >>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/517) >>> >>> *Web developers*: No signals >>> >>> *Other signals*: >>> >>> WebView application risks >>> >>> *Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such >>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?* >>> >>> None >>> >>> >>> Debuggability >>> >>> None >>> >>> >>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, >>> Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)? >>> No >>> >>> Initially supported on Windows, Mac, and Linux with ChromeOS support to >>> follow. >>> >>> >>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests >>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> >>> ? >>> Yes >>> >>> >>> https://wpt.fyi/results/speech-api?label=experimental&label=master&aligned >>> >>> >>> Flag name on about://flags >>> >>> >>> Finch feature name >>> WebSpeechRecognitionContext,OnDeviceWebSpeech,OnDeviceWebSpeechAvailable >>> >>> Rollout plan >>> Will ship enabled for all users >>> >>> Requires code in //chrome? >>> False >>> >>> Estimated milestones >>> >>> Shipping on desktop >>> 140 >>> >>> >>> Anticipated spec changes >>> >>> *Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or >>> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues >>> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may >>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of >>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).* >>> None >>> >>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status >>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5225615177023488?gate=4780829605363712 >>> >>> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status >>> <https://chromestatus.com/>. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to blink-dev+...@chromium.org. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/686eb087.2b0a0220.3a1521.0f8f.GAE%40google.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/686eb087.2b0a0220.3a1521.0f8f.GAE%40google.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. 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