chromium is not generating voice
Solution 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.
Solution 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.