Chrome Ubuntu loads voices only after page refresh when tts is used on the very first page

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🔊 Cross browser Speech Synthesis also known as Text to speech or TTS; no dependencies; uses Web Speech API

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Chrome Ubuntu loads voices only after page refresh when tts is used on the very first page #1

Open jankapunkt opened 2 years ago

jankapunkt commented 2 years ago

Close all chrome windows, and try to get voices, no voices will be loaded, onvoiceschanged never dispatches Refresh the page -> voices load, onvoiceschanged will be dispatched.

Zireael07 commented 10 months ago

In my case it says no voices even after reload.

jankapunkt commented 10 months ago

@Zireael07 when you close -> then open your Chrome and open the developer console (F12) and (maybe repeatedly) enter speechSynthesis.getVoices() then do you get any results?

Zireael07 commented 10 months ago

no, still says no voices. Tried googling but honestly there is nothing on WHY there are no voices and how to check if your OS has voices

jankapunkt commented 10 months ago

Yeah, this is a huge problem in general. Most likely there are no voices installed on your system. You can check if things are running on OS level by this topic: https://askubuntu.com/questions/589074/what-is-speech-dispatcher