chromium is not generating voice

Question

Chromium is not producing voice when I am running my code, while this is working in chrome.

var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance('Hello World');

window.speechSynthesis.speak(msg);

Answer 1

I couldn't get it to work myself. From the article: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=251288

we need to use --enable-speech-synthesis and the speech dispatcher apt-get install speech-dispatcher

Since that did not work I tried also installing libspeechd & espeak but still chromium(58.0.3029.110) seemed unable to pickup any speech engine.

Also just to cover my basis I have tried all of this with the flag mentioned above --enable-speech-dispatcher which gave me a "you are using an unsupported command-line flag" warning.

All of this on x64 and arm64 ubuntu 16.04.2.

Answer 2

Install espeak with a package manager, to populate SpeechSynthesis.getVoices() array with voices from espeak for chromium browser speech dispatcher to utilize

$ sudo apt-get install espeak

Then launch chromium with --enable-speech-dispatcher flag set.

Answer 3

Speech synthesis is disabled by default in chromium builds on debian/ubuntu. Enable it with the --enable-speech-dispatcher command line flag.

Note however that voices are not supported without installing Google API keys.