search

HadrienGardeur / web-speech-recommended-voices

A list of recommended voices for the Web Speech API
https://hadriengardeur.github.io/web-speech-recommended-voices/demo/
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
3 stars 0 forks source link

Apple should allow the use of Siri voices through the WebSpeech API #22

Open HadrienGardeur opened 3 weeks ago

HadrienGardeur commented 3 weeks ago

On macOS, Siri voices are the best preloaded voices available on the platform.

In addition to the compact voices (preloaded), there are also higher quality variants that can be downloaded from the system settings.

Unfortunately, none of these voices are available in browsers through the WebSpeech API. This is unfortunate, since high quality preloaded voices are the most important ones when implementers/users need a default option.

Links:

HadrienGardeur commented 3 weeks ago

These higher quality Siri voices are also available on iOS and iPadOS but without the compact variant installed by default.

This issue has been labeled under macOS since iOS and iPadOS suffer from a major issue with installed voices, as documented in #19.