Open foolip opened 5 years ago
@marcoscaceres turns out there was an issue filed, please see the original bug thread too.
Thanks for the pointer.
This seems like it needs to be in the "Security and privacy considerations" section of the proposed spec text, but that section doesn't even mention it.
I don't think it makes sense that arbitrary sites be allowed to learn the set of installed voices without any user action. I've never seen a site that uses this API, let alone one that has convinced me that I should want it to both be able to access the complete list of voices and to override my chosen system default voice. What's the use case for this?
edit: To clarify, I'm questioning the use case for enumerating / selecting voices. I understand why you might want to ask the user's machine to read text to them as a general capability.
See WebSpeech API mustn't allow fingerprinting. Issue moved here in order to discontinue use of Bugzilla for Speech API.