1437422 - Cannot set SpeechSynthesisVoice to female voice variant when espeak is the default speech synthesis module

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Web Speech, defect)

Description

[guest271314]

Attachment: setSpeechSynthesisVocieToFemaleVoiceTest.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/64.0.3282.119 Chrome/64.0.3282.119 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Execute window.speechSynthesis.getVoices()
2. Filter SpeechSynthesisVoice objects and select a SpeechSynthesisVoice object where "female" is included in SpeechSynthesisVoice "name" attribute



Actual results:

The female voice variant is not selected, the male voice variant is output as audio


Expected results:

The female voice variant should be selected, the female voice variant is output as audio

Comment 1

[guest271314]

espeak expects voice variant name to be e.g., "female1" or "english+f1" not "english+female1 espeak" at Chromium 
"english+female1" at Firefox.

Chromium issue https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=811160.

Comment 2

[guest271314]

Should the component be Web Speech?