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
work in Ubuntu Chromium. This is true for the apt repository Chromium
and for the snap repository Chromium in Ubuntu.
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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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