1496122 - Support espeak directly (drop speech dispatcher)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Web Speech, enhancement)

Description

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Speech dispatcher seems to be specialized for screen reader use, and the maintenance is not very active. I propose that for Linux we support espeak directly. Either with a WASM compiled version or ldopen.

This would allow us to have more feature parity with other platforms, specifically pause and boundary events.

Here is a demo I made a while back of an emscriptened version:
https://eeejay.github.io/espeak/emscripten/espeak.html

The build scripts were accepted upstream:
https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/tree/master/emscripten

Comment 1

[Daniel M. Capella]

Related to bug 1269297.