That's a good idea, Colin. I will take a look at that.
Yura On 2013-07-26, at 9:50 AM, Colin Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yura, > > If we're really stuck, I think we should take a look at loading audio files > into AudioBuffers and playing them back with the WebAudio API using an > AudioBufferSourceNode. It looks like Firefox will have full support for this > shipping in the next release, which is only a few weeks away. > > I can whip up some code to do this next week if it is helpful. > > Colin > > --- > Colin Clark > http://fluidproject.org > > On 2013-07-26, at 12:10 AM, "Zenevich, Yura" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Just a quick update on the self voicing work I've been doing in the past >> couple of days. >> >> I've made some improvements to the existing version of the self voicing >> enactor. For example, there's no more limitation (introduced due to the >> Google Translate TTS) of 100 characters max at a time. Right now the text to >> speech engine will utter a complete text node at a time. There's also a >> better handling of media events which eliminated the pre-existing timeout >> hacks in between playback and errors. >> >> The not so good news is that the self voicing enactor is almost non-working >> in Firefox. It seems that the the audio element events just die shortly >> after the playback has started. This happens due to the fact that the >> browser does not seem to properly handle the update of the audio's src >> attribute: >> >> Expected behaviour would be an |canplaythrough| event being fired (which >> would trigger the enactor). >> >> Actual behaviour is an incorrect handling of the response to the TTS engine >> server that results in the following response message: >> Reload the page to get source for: (url to tts engine server) >> I've also experimented with replacing the audio tag completely and with not >> attaching the audio tag to the document itself but to no success. >> >> Perhaps some of you have suggestions for different scenarios that could be >> tested. >> >> Regards, >> >> Yura > _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
