Re: Browser support for TTS implementation

It will be available by default in Firefox starting at version 49.

I set up a demo here: http://eeejay.github.io/webspeechdemos/

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Deborah Dahl <
dahl@conversational-technologies.com> wrote:

> I don't know about websites, but browser support is summarized at
> http://caniuse.com/#feat=speech-synthesis. It looks like Chrome, Safari
> and Opera support it and Edge is coming soon. It also looks like it can be
> enabled in Firefox with a flag.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wyant, Jay (MNIT) [mailto:Jay.Wyant@state.mn.us]
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 6:04 PM
> To: public-speech-api@w3.org
> Cc: Delisi, Jennie (MNIT)
> Subject: Browser support for TTS implementation
>
> We're looking for a way to support text-to-speech capabilities for folks
> visiting our website. It appears that this API would enable us to do this.
> Two questions:
> - Can anyone provide links to websites that currently implement this? For
> example, providing a button on their web pages that enable the user to
> exercise the TTS functionality
> - Does anyone have a list of browsers that support the TTS component of
> the API? Perusing the mail archives, we find reference to checking the
> browser for the web speech API via the webkitSheechRecognition object, but
> we can't find any reference to the TTS equivalent.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information.
> Jay
>
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