*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1792300 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792300
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1792300
Speech Synthesis Not Working
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1881953
Title:
Speech API Doesn't Work
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Modern web browsers, by spec, are supposed to support Speech Synthesis:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/speechSynthesis
Although Chromium does indeed support it:
https://caniuse.com/#feat=speech-synthesis
It doesn't work in Ubuntu or Kubuntu 20.04.
On this vary page, you should be able to have Chromium read it aloud
by typing shift-ctrl-I and then entering this code-line into the
console (and pressing enter):
speechSynthesis.speak(new
SpeechSynthesisUtterance(document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].innerText));
Something shorter, that you could type into the browser-console (for
testing) is:
speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesisUtterance("testing 1, 2, 3");
You should be able to hear the browser say "testing 1, 2, 3" after
doing this, but it doesn't working via the Chromium snap package for
Ubuntu 20.04.
Another example, is this Card Trick (it should speak to your during the
trick):
http://www.lonniebest.com/CardTrick/
(Try it in Windows 10 Chromium to hear what it is supposed to do)
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