Re: Speech Synthesis - Length parameter

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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> A lot of discussion about it here:
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21110
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> 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)
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> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QojxT6JdNW7lyhRRMjt44ipthhpfGVI_UGftQoJvbbw/pubhtml?gid=605357384&single=true
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