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Expand the Compatibility section

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Created on 19 March 2025, about 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

"SpeakEasy works out-of-the-box with most modern browsers that support the Web Speech API, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge."

These days I think it's called the Speech Synthesis API and Can I use has the compatibility overview.

However, the overview at Can I use is not perfect.

I'm on Linux, trying to make the browser read a page in Danish.

What I found out:

  • Firefox has a gazillion awful and, to put it bluntly, useless voices.
  • Edge has a few very good voices.
  • Chrome has no voices. Unless you switch to Windows. Then you're rewarded a few fine voices.
  • Brave, Chromium, Opera have no voices. Switching to Windows might help. Haven't checked.

Proposed resolution

Link to Can I use to inform potential users about compatibility. While remarking that running the browser on Windows will get you the most voices.

Maybe open a thread in the issue queue for SpeakEasy where users can exchange tips on good voices.
i.e. "Useful Danish voices: Edge: Christel, Jeppe. Chrome: Helle (Windows only), Firefox: Danish+Hugo (but actuallly terrible)"

Great module, btw.

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

1.0

Component

Documentation

Created by

🇩🇰Denmark Steven Snedker

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