# Specification Quality Checklist: Audio8-ASR Backend (Adapter + Benchmark Comparison)

**Purpose**: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning
**Created**: 2026-08-17
**Feature**: [spec.md](../spec.md)

## Content Quality

- [x] No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
- [x] Focused on user value and business needs
- [x] Written for non-technical stakeholders
- [x] All mandatory sections completed

## Requirement Completeness

- [x] No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
- [x] Requirements are testable and unambiguous
- [x] Success criteria are measurable
- [x] Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
- [x] All acceptance scenarios are defined
- [x] Edge cases are identified
- [x] Scope is clearly bounded
- [x] Dependencies and assumptions identified

## Feature Readiness

- [x] All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
- [x] User scenarios cover primary flows
- [x] Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
- [x] No implementation details leak into specification

## Notes

- "No implementation details" passes *in the repo's sense*: the model identity
  (Audio8-ASR-0.1B, its publisher-documented capabilities and license) and the
  existing wire contract are the substance of the feature request itself,
  consistent with prior backend specs (007/008 name Whisper/Nemotron; 009 names
  SenseVoice). Runtime selection (Transformers checkpoint vs the publisher's
  ONNX release), vendoring, and code structure are explicitly deferred to the
  plan (Assumptions).
- No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers were needed at specify time. The two
  genuine scope forks were resolved by the 2026-08-17 clarification session:
  - **Snap packaging**: included — license compliance assigned to the
    integrator, tooling surfaces (not enforces) CC-BY-NC-4.0 acknowledgment.
  - **Streaming / GPU**: no native streaming exists (batch-only confirmed
    against publisher docs); GPU acceleration in scope via the per-family
    snap engine pattern.
  Benchmark languages remain English + Chinese only, matching the existing
  reference corpora; other supported languages served but unevaluated.
- The hallucination-on-silence risk (generative decoder) is elevated to both an
  acceptance scenario (US1 #6) and a measurable criterion (SC-005) because it
  is the most likely way this model class fails a dictation evaluation.
- Items marked incomplete require spec updates before `/speckit-clarify` or `/speckit-plan`
