1426626 - narrate doesn't work on fedora 27

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: Web Speech, defect)

Description

[goddard]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171130114045

Steps to reproduce:

1. visit https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/ask-polly-im-a-writer-and-my-life-is-falling-apart.html
2. enable reader view
3. click narrate and play

fedora 27, x86_64


Actual results:

no narration even though the tab shows active speaker icon


Expected results:

there's an actual narration of the text going on

Comment 1

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Reporter, do you have libspeechd installed on this machine ?

Comment 2

[goddard]

(In reply to Paul Adenot (:padenot) from comment #1)
> Reporter, do you have libspeechd installed on this machine ?

i have speech-dispatcher-0.8.8-1 installed which is libspeechd part of.

Comment 3

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Thanks.

Eitan, do you know what's up here ?

Comment 4

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Just tested on Fedora 27, and it works for me. Do you see the yellow paragraph highlight advancing?

Go to: http://eeejay.github.io/webspeechdemos/

- Is the voice combo box populated?
- When you press play, do you hear anything?
- Do you see events printed to the js console?

Comment 5

[goddard]

1. the voice combo box is populated
2. no, i can't hear anything when i press play or the speak it button
3. yes, there are events in the js console:
Speech Event: 
start
bubbles: false
cancelBubble: false
cancelable: false
charIndex: 0
charLength: null
composed: false
currentTarget: null
defaultPrevented: false
elapsedTime: 0
eventPhase: 0
explicitOriginalTarget: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
isTrusted: true
name: ""
originalTarget: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
target: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
timeStamp: 3295.91035
type: "start"
utterance: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
__proto__: SpeechSynthesisEventPrototype { utterance: Getter, charIndex: Getter, charLength: Getter, … }
webspeechdemos:292:11
Speech Event: 
end
bubbles: false
cancelBubble: false
cancelable: false
charIndex: 0
charLength: null
composed: false
currentTarget: null
defaultPrevented: false
elapsedTime: 15.537030220031738
eventPhase: 0
explicitOriginalTarget: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
isTrusted: true
name: ""
originalTarget: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
target: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
timeStamp: 18832.856046
type: "end"
utterance: SpeechSynthesisUtterance { text: "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.", volume: 1, rate: 1, … }
__proto__: SpeechSynthesisEventPrototype { utterance: Getter, charIndex: Getter, charLength: Getter, … }

Comment 6

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Looks like this may be a sound/speechd configuration issue.

Does this command work?

python3 -c "import speechd; client = speechd.SSIPClient('test'); client.speak('Hello World'); client.close()"

Comment 7

[goddard]

(In reply to Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay] from comment #6)
> Looks like this may be a sound/speechd configuration issue.
> 
> Does this command work?
> 
> python3 -c "import speechd; client = speechd.SSIPClient('test');
> client.speak('Hello World'); client.close()"

that doesn't produce any output (no error message either)

Comment 8

[Luis]

Testing Reader, Audio Narration:

nightly-build: 
61.0a1 (2018-03-14) (64-bit)

OS:
Fedora 27

Reproducible:
No

Steps taken:
1. Loaded https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/ask-polly-im-a-writer-and-my-life-is-falling-apart.html
   + Switched to reader successfully
   + selected navigation successfully

2. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76
   + Switched to reader successfully
   + selected navigation successfully

Actual results:
+ audio dictation performs as expected
+ reading location highlights as expected
-- Voice menu fails to change speech style

Expected results:
As per original bug, audio narration failure


Additional info:
1. Original bug was not reproducible.
2. Exploratory testing found voice menu selection revealed no change in speech style.

Comment 9

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

no activity for the last 5 years, closing