I believe there was a slight misunderstanding. The current work being made is on the recognition part of the API only. The synthesis part landed a while ago, and is already enabled by default. You can find some documentation here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 4:23 PM Gijs Kruitbosch <gkruitbo...@mozilla.com> wrote: > The document says "The WebSpeech API allows websites to enable speech > input within their experiences." and that it is emphatically NOT > "Text-to-speech/narration". > > This doesn't correspond to the original email here: > > > As of October 11th, the Emerging Technologies Team intend to turn "Web > > Speech API" on by default in *Nightly only* on Mac, Windows, and Linux. > It > > has been developed behind the "media.webspeech.recognition.*" and > > "media.webspeech.synth" preference. > > What is the "synth" part if not speech synthesis ie TTS ? > > ~ Gijs > > > On 12/10/2019 10:29, Andre Natal wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > sorry for the delay, but besides the patch itself we were working in an > FAQ > > to address all the questions raised in this thread along others we got > from > > other teams. > > > > We tried to capture everything here [1], so please if you don't see your > > question addressed in this document, just give us a shout either here in > > the thread or directly. > > > > Also see below the actual phab [2] and the bug [3] for more information. > > > > [1] > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BE90kgbwE37fWoQ8vqnsQ3YMiJCKJSvqQwa463yCN1Y/edit?ts=5da0f63f# > > > > > > [2] https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D26047 > > > > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1248897 > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andre > > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:40 AM Marcos Caceres <mcace...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Monday, October 7, 2019 at 12:55:23 PM UTC+11, Marcos Caceres wrote: > >>> As of October 11th, the Emerging Technologies Team intend to turn "Web > >> Speech API" on by default in *Nightly only* on Mac, Windows, and Linux. > It > >> has been developed behind the "media.webspeech.recognition.*" and > >> "media.webspeech.synth" preference. > >>> > >> > >> Note that because this is only being pref'ed on in Nightly, it should be > >> considered a kind of "intent to experiment". This is to allow the ET > team > >> to get a better understanding of what need to be fixed to get better > >> interop and what needs to be fixed in the spec. Concerns with the > current > >> spec around outlined in: > >> > >> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/170 > >> > >> Collaboration with Google folks is ongoing to address some of those at > the > >> spec level. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-platform mailing list > >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > >> > > > > > > -- -- Thanks, Andre _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
