332165 - The "Start Speaking Text" menu option is unavailable from the Thunderbird>Services>Speech menu.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135268

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[mmccaleb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

From the 

  Thunderbird
     > Services
        > Speech

menu, the menu options "Start Speaking Text" and "Stop Speaking" are dimmed, indicating that these options are not available. I've relied on these options to help proofread my emails before sending them with my prior email client, so I would appreciate the addition of this functionality in Thunderbird. Additionally, I would think that this functionality would be useful for some visually impaired users. This may be considered a duplicate of bugs 330234 and 135268 that are related to Firefox and Netscape, respectively. However, I still feel its worth making the case for text-to-speech in Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #0)
> This may be considered a duplicate of bugs 330234 and
> 135268 that are related to Firefox and Netscape, respectively.

Bug 135268 is actually a Core bug so fixing that bug should also fix Thunderbird -> duplicate of bug 135268?

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

bug 135268 is a core bug, which is valid for all applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, XULRunner, ...). Except Camino ofcourse.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135268 ***