Re: Speech Synthesis - Length parameter

Yes! *Bug 21110 - Need to clarify what happens if two windows try to speak *
<https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21110>

And that table I linked to is how we do it now in Firefox. Would be good to
discuss that and get all implementations aligned.


On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>
wrote:

> On that note, not sure if this is captured in a bug now but I'd really
> like to see some clarification on the correct behavior when multiple
> windows request speech at the same time.
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:20 PM Eitan Isaacson <eisaacson@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> To clarify, the actual API allowing it is a lower priority imho. I just
>> mean 2 separate windows using synth at the same time.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Eitan Isaacson <eisaacson@mozilla.com>
>> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Jerry Smith (WPT) <
>> jdsmith@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> The API supports simultaneously running multiple speech synthesis
>> engines?  When might that be useful?
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>> Not related to charLength, but yes. I would love to see this be possible.
>> Imagine listening to an synthed audio book with turn-by-turn navigation.
>> You would want ducking of the narration when the navigation app speaks, but
>> not to have the entire page interrupted and canceled. The platform
>> limitations are pretty frustrating, with OSX (and maybe the new Win8 API?)
>> being the exception.
>>
>> A lot of discussion about it here:
>> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21110
>>
>> I also wanted to clarify in the non-concurrent case how to minimize two
>> pages interfering with each other (besides being annoying this is a
>> security issue because of the state leakage)
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QojxT6JdNW7lyhRRMjt44ipthhpfG
>> VI_UGftQoJvbbw/pubhtml?gid=605357384&single=true
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