Current broken state of speechSynthesis at Chromium
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1130231
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Title:
Speech Synthesis Not Wo
Speech synthesis processing is not shipped in Chromium source code.
Ordinarily, in order to use speech synthesis at Chromium a speech
synthesis engine needs to be installed, for example, espeak or espeak-
ng, and speech-dispatch needs to be installed
$ sudo apt install python3-speechd
then lau
I was able to get Speech Synthesis working in Kubuntu via Firefox:
https://askubuntu.com/a/1262310/256054
However, I still can't get it working in Chromium.
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User activation has been added to my trick for Chromium:
http://www.lonniebest.com/CardTrick/
As Olivier pointed out, the issue remains that speechSynthesis (a web
standard that major browsers support in other operating systems) is not
working Kubuntu 20.04 or Ubuntu 20.04. These are long term sup
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You don't need to go to any web page in particular to test this.
Open the browser and hit ctrl-shift-I and then type this into the console and
press enter:
speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesisUtterance("Testing 1 2 3"));
This works in Ubuntu Firefox and in MS Windows Chrome, but it does not