1238538 - Pause/Resume speech does not work on Linux via Speech Dispatcher

Status: NEW

(Core :: Web Speech, defect)

Description

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

Reproducible on latest Aurora 45.0a2 (buildID: 20160110004009) 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Reproducible on latest Nightly 46.0a1 (buildID: 20160110030214) 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0

Steps to reproduce: 
1. Ensure that the speech synthesis is enabled (media.webspeech.synth.enabled must be true)
2. Go to http://eeejay.github.io/webspeechdemos/ . 
3. Click the "Speak it" button. 
4. Click the "Pause/Resume" button. 
5. Click the "Cancel" or the "Interrupt" button and then click again the "Speak it" button. 

Actual results: 
1. The "Pause/Resume" button doesn't work. Nothing happens by clicking on it. 
2. After clicking on the "Cancel" or "Interrupt" button, the "Speak it" button doesn't work anymore and speech synthesis doesn't start.

Notes: The issue is NOT reproducible on Windows 7 64 and Mac OSX 10.9.5.

Comment 1

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

(In reply to Camelia Badau, QA [:cbadau] from comment #0)

> 1. The "Pause/Resume" button doesn't work. Nothing happens by clicking on
> it. 

Pause and Resume is unimplemented on speechd backend.

Comment 2

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

This is a known issue that is a limitation of speechd itself.

Comment 3

[Monica Chiorean]

Issue still reproduces on Ubuntu24.04 using FF build 131.0b9. Play/Pause button takes no action.