Web Speech API is (still) broken on Linux circa 2023

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  • native-messaging-espeak-ng

    Native Messaging => eSpeak NG => MediaStreamTrack

    • I already implemented direct connection to a local speech synthesis engine that processes SSML input, provides a means to pause and resume the audio output because we can play the file using HTMLMediaElement in the browser, and creates a MediaStreamTrack from the parsed WAV for the ability to record and share the stream with peers - to prove the requirement is possible https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng.

  • SSMLParser

    Implement SSML parsing for Web Speech API

    • Or, as you noted, split the synthesis over multiple SpeechSynthesisUtterance instances in a user-defined queue calling speak() in succession. That's what I do here https://guest271314.github.io/SSMLParser/.

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  • GoogleNetworkSpeechSynthesis

    Google's Network Speech Synthesis: Bring your own Google API key and proxy

    • This is how you can make the request yourself GoogleNetworkSpeechSynthesis.

  • TTS

    :robot: :speech_balloon: Deep learning for Text to Speech (Discussion forum: https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/tts) (by mozilla)

    • There is a lot of TTS and SST development going on (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS; https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech; https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice). That is the only way they work: Contributions from the wild.

  • DeepSpeech

    DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers.

    • There is a lot of TTS and SST development going on (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS; https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech; https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice). That is the only way they work: Contributions from the wild.

  • common-voice

    Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.

    • There is a lot of TTS and SST development going on (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS; https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech; https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice). That is the only way they work: Contributions from the wild.

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