Once I discovered the connection with speech-dispatcher on my system (as
noted above), I did some related searches and found a reddit article
(https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7n5vn6/linux_firefox_and_speechdispatcher_are_making/)
related to this that indicates if you disable both the
This happened again to me today. I was in a MSTeams chat session
(standalone app, not the web version) and opened a webpage in Firefox
that garbled the sound of the meeting in progress. I noticed that when
it happened that in the system audio mixer/volume control manager, there
was suddenly a
I have the same issue on Xubuntu 20.04. I find that just exiting
Firefox completely and relaunching it resolves the audio problem on
other applications and stays fixed, even after relaunching Firefox,
unless I go to a website that causes the issue to start again. So, it
seems to be very website