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Web Speech API (synthesis)

Category
Multimedia
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 33)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Enables web developers to incorporate speech synthesis into their web pages. Uses whatever the platform provides for synthesis. Coming in M71, synthesis will have a few small changes. 1. Exposing the following existing interfaces: SpeechSynthesis, SpeechSynthesisVoice, SpeechSynthesisEvent 2. Adding a constructor to SpeechSynthesisEvent 3. Adding and exposing a new interface, SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent.

Standards & signals

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