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 support
releases. Where is the support? I reported this two years ago. What
about the visual impaired people that depend on speechSynthesis?
To reproduce this bug, open Chromium on any web page and then hit ctrl-shift-I.
At the console type (or copy/paste):
speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesisUtterance("Testing 1 2 3"));
If you do not hear your browser speak "Testing 1 2 3", the bug is not
fixed. Try the same test on Windows 10 to experience speechSynthesis
working as expected.
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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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