[Bug 1821439] [NEW] speech-dispatcher triggers sound errors in Firefox while playing media and using

[Jan Morten Schrag]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu Gnome 18.10

Expected behaviour:
Play media content in different tab in Firefox while viewing a page in Firefox' readingview (that option given in the URL-bar for a text version of a site)

What happens:
As soon as i open the website in Firefox special readingview, all sounds from the media tab starts to make crackling sounds.

Workaround:
Close Firefox and don't use reading view.

Second workaround:
Removing packet "speech-dispatcher" completly remove this issue.

This issue is extra annoying in Kubuntu as it starts as soon as i open
one of the PIM applications, i.e. kmail or akkregator.

Seems to be cross-distribution as i experienced it on OpenSUSE Leap 15 /
Tumbleweed KDE and could be resolved by removing speech-dispatcher
packet.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: speech-dispatcher (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-16.17-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Mar 23 09:09:17 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-03-17 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: speech-dispatcher
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: speech-dispatcher (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug cosmic wayland-session

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