Bug 290497

Summary: AX: Web Speech Synthesis API: not all voices installed listed, only low quality ones are available
Product: WebKit Reporter: weijarz
Component: AccessibilityAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: andresg_22, bfulgham, sihui_liu, webkit-bug-importer, wilander
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: Safari 18   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250665

weijarz
Reported 2025-03-26 19:14:18 PDT
The SpeechSynthesis.getVoices() only lists a fixed pre-installed sounds, newly downloaded sounds (System Settings (Accessibility -> Spoken content -> Voices) are not listed. The pre-installed voices are all robotic-sounding, low quality and make for a poor user experience! Apple users have less and worse possibilities in this case compared to users of all other platforms, e.g. Microsoft Edge on Windows provides quality Natural speech voice to the SpeechSynthesis API.
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2025-03-26 19:14:26 PDT
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