Re: How to get word boundary event to work on Android Chrome?

Dear Webspeech Team,

Any update on my queries?
I am eagerly awaiting your response. Please do help.

Best,
KC


On Mon 28 Jun, 2021, 12:49 PM krishna chandran, <krishnachandran52@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Team,
>
> I am trying to build a simple TTS app that converts TTS with highlight
> sync using Webspeech API.  Here is a quick demo of what I built so far:
> https://tinyurl.com/webspeech-demo
>
> I am facing a couple of issues:
>
> 1. Since boundary events trigger only while using native voices, and as
> select voice drop down in chrome lists all available voices, the
> performance seems erratic to the user. Is there a way to list only native
> voice on all browsers including chrome?
>
> 2. The boundary event does not work in chrome for android (I haven't
> tested on other browsers as chrome for android is 'the target browser'). Is
> there any way to get the boundary event to work on chrome for android?
> It makes no sense to me to see that Google, which helped develop
> webspeech api, has made sure that key features like boundary event triggers
> do not work smoothly on their browsers. I understand that this could be
> their way of making users switch to GCP TTS.
>
> Can you please help me find a resolution to both the problems I had
> mentioned?
> Thank you in advance.
>
> *KC*
>
>