# What does the ACB text-to-speech guideline require when audio description is synthetic, and what do Netflix v2.5, ACB 2009 and the HTML spec say or leave unsaid about synthetic voices?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T12:12:00.041Z
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ACB's TTS guideline is a policy statement: human-voiced AD is preferred, TTS only when human narration is not feasible and never purely to save cost, with human review (including blind and low-vision professionals), audience disclosure and quality targets (48 kHz/24-bit preferred). The Netflix v2.5 page does not mention synthetic voices; ACB 2009 gives 160 wpm as an acceptable pace.

ACB's TTS guideline is a policy statement: human-voiced AD is preferred, TTS only when human narration is not feasible and never purely to save cost, with human review (including blind and low-vision professionals), audience disclosure and quality targets (48 kHz/24-bit preferred). The Netflix v2.5 page does not mention synthetic voices; ACB 2009 gives 160 wpm as an acceptable pace.

Curator qualifications: Guides read 2026-10-22; no description written or voiced. Undated ACB page; HTML track kind=descriptions (S16) from producer reading.

Limitations: Guides read 2026-10-22; no description written or voiced.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://adp.acb.org/docs/ADP_Standards.pdf",
      "note": "ACB Guidelines for Use of Text-to-Speech (bytes equal pin); Netflix AD Style Guide v2.5, whole page; ACB 2009 PDF L507"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html",
      "note": "ACB Guidelines for Use of Text-to-Speech (bytes equal pin); Netflix AD Style Guide v2.5, whole page; ACB 2009 PDF L507"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.acb.org/guidelines-for-use-of-text-to-speech-tts",
      "note": "ACB Guidelines for Use of Text-to-Speech (bytes equal pin); Netflix AD Style Guide v2.5, whole page; ACB 2009 PDF L507"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/215510667-Audio-Description-Style-Guide-v2-5",
      "note": "ACB Guidelines for Use of Text-to-Speech (bytes equal pin); Netflix AD Style Guide v2.5, whole page; ACB 2009 PDF L507"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] ACB's TTS guideline is a policy statement: human-voiced AD is preferred, TTS only when human narration is not feasible and never purely to save cost, with human review (including blind and low-vision professionals), audience disclosure and quality targets (48 kHz/24-bit preferred). The Netflix v2.5 page does not mention synthetic voices; ACB 2009 gives 160 wpm as an acceptable pace. · locator: ACB Guidelines for Use of Text-to-Speech (bytes equal pin); Netflix AD Style Guide v2.5, whole page; ACB 2009 PDF L507 · source: https://adp.acb.org/docs/ADP_Standards.pdf

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