Firefox and Speech Synthesis API

Question

I'm creating HTML5 Speech Synthesis application like below link.

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API

Windows7 and Android Chrome33beta or Mac's safari works fine.

but Windows7-Firefox 27 seems support Speech-Synthesis-API,but not work because return empty voice list.

Is there any solution?

Answer 1

Check if Speech Synthesis API is supported your browser
http://caniuse.com/#feat=speech-synthesis

You can check it with modernizr
http://v3.modernizr.com/download/#-speechsynthesis

If browser not support it, you can use meSpek.js
http://www.masswerk.at/mespeak/