I can confirm this doesn't work in chromium, neither snap (tested in
19.10) nor deb (tested in 18.04).
Note that with the deb, I'm seeing the following message:
INFO:CONSOLE(765) "speechSynthesis.speak() without user activation
is no longer allowed since M71, around December 2018. See
https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5687444770914304 for more details"
Lonnie, your CardTrick page will need to be updated to speak only upon
user activation.
This isn't the root cause of the problem though, speech synthesis
doesn't work in chromium even if user activated.
** Summary changed:
- Chromium Speech Synthesis Not Working
+ Speech Synthesis Not Working
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792300
Title:
Speech Synthesis Not Working
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
In Ubuntu 16.04.5, Firefox supports Speech Synthesis by utilizing
Text-To-Speech voices provided by default from the operating system.
In Windows 10, both both Firefox and Chrome support Speech Synthesis
by utilizing Text-To-Speech voices provided by default from the
operating system.
However,in Chromium 68 and 69, although the API is supported, Chromium
cannot speak, because it doesn't seem to know how to load those Text-
To-Speech voices that Firefox is successfully utilizing.
Here's what users said at Ask Ubuntu, regarding the issue:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/761975/
For example, this page should speak the text is shows:
http://www.lonniebest.com/CardTrick/
The link above does not work in Chromium 69 on Ubuntu, however it does
work in the following browser/os combinations:
- Firefox (Ubuntu 16.04.5)
- Chrome (Windows 10)
- Firefox (Windows 10)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: chromium-browser 69.0.3497.81-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-34.37~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Sep 13 00:38:53 2018
Desktop-Session:
'ubuntu'
'/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg'
'/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop'
DetectedPlugins:
Env:
'None'
'None'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20180731)
Load-Avg-1min: 0.51
Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.1%
MachineType: System76 Bonobo WS
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-34-generic
root=UUID=c57c4be3-fe0f-4162-804e-627e28920546 ro acpi_backlight=vendor quiet
splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/12/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.05.04RSA5
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: Bonobo WS
dmi.board.vendor: System76
dmi.board.version: bonw13
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: System76
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.05.04RSA5:bd12/12/2017:svnSystem76:pnBonoboWS:pvrbonw13:rvnSystem76:rnBonoboWS:rvrbonw13:cvnSystem76:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.family: Not Applicable
dmi.product.name: Bonobo WS
dmi.product.version: bonw13
dmi.sys.vendor: System76
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium-browser: [deleted]
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