"You can't use speech synthesis because the speech dispatcher library is missing"
There's a 'learn more' link, but it just talks about getting speech synthesis working in my browser. Searching for the error string returns similar discussions. I don't want to do that (especially if it's some new marketing fad). Obviously it's speech synthesis but *what is it saying?*
The most recent instance was a dell.com product page posted here on HN:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories
As lots of people on HN will have visited that link I thought somebody might be able to tell me what they heard?
serf•2w ago
I know Ubuntu, among others, used to ship Firefox without modules it defaulted into, so it would complain harmlessly and bring up an annoying pop-up-blocked style modal when the TTS module/engine was missing.
(they may still do this, but i'm not up to date.)
LeratoAustini•2w ago
I'm on a Debian, so that ties in with what you mentioned.
It's easy to get rid of the error, I was more just curious. Thought maybe mainstream websites had started blasting speech at users as soon as they arrived.