For your information, if trying this in a snap, make sure to supply a
correct XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as that seems to be modified by snapcraft or
snapd.
Namely, in a `snap run --shell {snap-name-with-spd}`, this fails:
```
$ spd-say bye
Failed to connect to Speech Dispatcher:
Error: Can't connect to unix socket
/run/user/1000/snap.geheim/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock: No such file or
directory. Autospawn: Autospawn failed. Spawn error 8: Failed to execute child
process “/usr/bin/speech-dispatcher” (No such file or directory)
```
but this works:
```
$ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 spd-say bye
```
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1987979
Title:
[snap] Firefox Narrator stopped working after upgrade from 20.04 to
22.04
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
New
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
I just noticed that the narrator feature, which reads articles out
load with TTS in Firefox reading view stopped working after upgrading
to 22.04. Another user reported the same problem on ask Ubuntu:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1418391/no-tts-voices-on-
firefox-v102-0-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-22-04-lts
Also, if you have no clue what this is about:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/953509/how-can-i-change-the-voice-
used-by-firefox-reader-view-narrator-in-ubuntu
---
1)
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
2) Firefox is a snap now, but I guess for the feature to work it needs
to detect TTS which is packaged as deb.
$ snap list firefox
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
firefox 104.0-3 1749 latest/stable mozilla✓ -
$ apt-cache policy espeak speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng firefox
espeak:
Installed: 1.48.15+dfsg-3
Candidate: 1.48.15+dfsg-3
Version table:
*** 1.48.15+dfsg-3 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng:
Installed: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.11.1-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.11.1-1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
firefox:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Version table:
1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) open a website, enter reader mode, click the icon with sound waves
and hear the text being read with TTS
4) the icon is missing
---
Edit: I tested Firefox Flatpak and it is also affected, my best guess
is that Firefox is not at fault.
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