[Bug 1987979] Re: Firefox Narrator stopped working after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04

[Benjamin Tegge]

** Description changed:

  I just noticed that the narrator feature, which reads articles out load
  with TTS in Firefox reading view stopped working after upgrading to
  22.04. Another user reported the same problem on ask Ubuntu:
  
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1418391/no-tts-voices-on-
  firefox-v102-0-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-22-04-lts
  
  Also, if you have no clue what this is about:
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/953509/how-can-i-change-the-voice-used-
  by-firefox-reader-view-narrator-in-ubuntu
  
  ---
  
  1)
  
  $   lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
  Release:	22.04
  
  2) Firefox is a snap now, but I guess for the feature to work it needs
  to detect TTS which is packaged as deb.
  
  $  snap list firefox
  Name     Version  Rev   Tracking       Publisher  Notes
  firefox  104.0-3  1749  latest/stable  mozilla✓   -
  
  $  apt-cache policy espeak speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng firefox
  espeak:
-   Installed: 1.48.15+dfsg-3
-   Candidate: 1.48.15+dfsg-3
-   Version table:
-  *** 1.48.15+dfsg-3 500
-         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 1.48.15+dfsg-3
+   Candidate: 1.48.15+dfsg-3
+   Version table:
+  *** 1.48.15+dfsg-3 500
+         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng:
-   Installed: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1
-   Candidate: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1
-   Version table:
-  *** 0.11.1-1ubuntu1 500
-         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-      0.11.1-1 500
-         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
+   Installed: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1
+   Candidate: 0.11.1-1ubuntu1
+   Version table:
+  *** 0.11.1-1ubuntu1 500
+         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+      0.11.1-1 500
+         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
  firefox:
-   Installed: (none)
-   Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
-   Version table:
-      1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
-         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: (none)
+   Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
+   Version table:
+      1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
+         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
  3) open a website, enter reader mode, click the icon with sound waves
  and hear the text being read with TTS
  
  4) the icon is missing
+ 
+ ---
+ 
+ Edit: I tested Firefox Flatpak and it is also affected, my best guess is
+ that Firefox is not at fault.

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