1305344 - Utterance not repeating in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Web Speech, defect, P3)

Description

[masterjames]

What did you do?
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1. create a new SpeechSynthesisUtterance("repeating?")
2. pass it to play in window.speechSynthesis.speak function
3. try again to repeat speak call

What happened?
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It plays the first time but doesn't the second time, like it does in Chrome. Again chrome works to re play an utterance without any other attempt to resolve.

What should have happened?
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it should play it as many times as you call "speak" with the same reused Utterance.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Same code works in Chrome but not repeating in Firefox. It does work the first time but won't replay.
I noticed it just started working in the last update about a week ago, so this "repeat play" test needs to be added to the tests or something.

Comment 1

[masterjames]

Should be a quick and easy fix you're likely already aware of?!

Comment 2

[masterjames]

Right I've added a super simple Fiddle now.
Run it in Chrome and you'll hear 2 times the word "Repeating".
Run it in Firefox and you'll hear it only once.

I suppose this helps to confirms the problem easily. Not sure what untriaged means exactly but maybe this fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/MasterJames/mzj8qbay/ helps move forward on resetting the play head when the utterance finishes or whatever the incompatibility issue is.

Comment 3

[Abe - QA (:Abe_LV)]

This is reproducible. In Firefox it does not repeat speak call as it does in chrome.

I am not sure if it an enhancement or a bug.

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Version 	52.0a1
Build ID 	20160930030315
Update Channel 	nightly
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0

Comment 4

[masterjames]

It disgusts me no one has fixed this in 4 months. Bugzilla/Firefox appear totally dysfunctional. How about you call it Wetfox and add a diaper to the icon/logo.
Well that's my loudest "bump" I can muster. Honestly why did I even waste the time to check.
I'd go cry now after my screaming, but instead I'll just laugh. Good luck.

Comment 5

[YF (Yang)]

For "I noticed it just started working in the last update about a week ago", I did not find a version of it works fine in Firefox 42.0 - 52.0b1, as well as Aurora and Nightly.
p.s. some versions must change the "media.webspeech.synth.enabled" to true (does Bug 1268633).

Comment 6

[masterjames]

Right I did provide above this simple test. https://jsfiddle.net/MasterJames/mzj8qbay/
I've just tried 50.1.0 and still failing.
I'm not sure how your suggestion fits but it's still just a work around and not to spec but thanks, maybe if you could fix the fiddle example to demonstrate the media.webspeech.synth.enabled idea, thanks.

Comment 7

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

Mass wontfix for bugs affecting firefox 52.

Comment 8

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 9

[Luka Zitnik]

Attachment: Bug 1305344 - Add passing regression test. r=chunmin

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/320b571a0801
Add passing regression test. r=chunmin

Comment 11

[Raul Gurzau (:RaulG)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/320b571a0801