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: > 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? >> > > 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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