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Remove SpeechSynthesis.speak without user activation

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Removed (Chrome 71)

Intent stage

None

Summary

This deprecation will cause speechSynthesis.speak to immediately fire an error if the document has not received user activation. This API is being abused by sites since it is one of the only remaining APIs which didn't adhere to autoplay policies in Chrome. This was deprecated in Chrome 70.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/speech-api/webspeechapi.html#tts-section
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/812767

Samples: http://cr.kungfoo.net/speech/immediately-speak.html

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