You have been subscribed to a public bug: I just noticed that the narrator feature, which reads articles out load with TTS in Firefox reading view stopped working after upgrading to 22.04. Another user reported the same problem on ask Ubuntu:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1418391/no-tts-voices-on- firefox-v102-0-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-22-04-lts Also, if you have no clue what this is about: https://askubuntu.com/questions/953509/how-can-i-change-the-voice-used- by-firefox-reader-view-narrator-in-ubuntu --- 1) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Release: 22.04 2) Firefox is a snap now, but I guess for the feature to work it needs to detect TTS which is packaged as deb. $ snap list firefox Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes firefox 104.0-3 1749 latest/stable mozillaâś“ - $ apt-cache policy espeak speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng firefox espeak: Installed: 1.48.15+dfsg-3 Candidate: 1.48.15+dfsg-3 Version table: *** 1.48.15+dfsg-3 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng: Installed: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.11.1-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.11.1-1 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages firefox: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 Version table: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) open a website, enter reader mode, click the icon with sound waves and hear the text being read with TTS 4) the icon is missing ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Firefox Narrator stopped working after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1987979 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
