Re: Intent to ship: Speech synthesis API

2016-04-29 Thread Eitan Isaacson
> > Are we shipping extra data files to enable speech synthesis? If so, how > large are they? If so, why aren't we using the speech synthesis APIs built > into the underlying OS (especially on Windows, which is where most of our > users are)? > > We are doing the latter (relying on platform tts sup

Re: Intent to ship: Speech synthesis API

2016-04-29 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > Hello, > > In Firefox 49 I intend to turn on the speech synthesis API on by default in > desktop. > > For those paying close attention, this is not the first mail like this. > Last time I turned it on in Nightly only to allow some fuzz tes

Re: Intent to ship: Speech synthesis API

2016-04-29 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
There are still quite a number of bugs on file for this feature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=speech%20synthesis&list_id=12990930 one of which seems to suggest we want to switch to a different system API for synthesis on Windows. Are we sure none of these other bugs need

Intent to ship: Speech synthesis API

2016-04-28 Thread Eitan Isaacson
Hello, In Firefox 49 I intend to turn on the speech synthesis API on by default in desktop. For those paying close attention, this is not the first mail like this. Last time I turned it on in Nightly only to allow some fuzz testing. As of this writing there is one blocker we are tracking. All the