How to use Web Speech API at chromium?

Question

How to use SpeechSynthesisUtterance() and window.speechSynthesis.speak() at chromium browser?

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Answer 1

2020. I recently tried to wrap my app which uses SpeechSynthesis with NWjs.

Properly works on Mac (mac os has voices by default).

As NWjs uses Chromium as a browser engine this proves that SpeechSynthesis works.

IMHO, the only difference between Chrome and Chromium that Chromium does not have Google voices and therefore will not work on the machine without voices installed.

Answer 2

Install espeak using package manager

$ sudo apt-get install espeak

Launch Chromium with --enable-speech-dispatcher flag

$ chromium-browser --enable-speech-dispatcher