Chrome Ubuntu loads voices only after page refresh when tts is used on the very first page

[jankapunkt]

Close all chrome windows, and try to get voices, no voices will be loaded, onvoiceschanged never dispatches
Refresh the page -> voices load, onvoiceschanged will be dispatched.

[Zireael07]

In my case it says no voices even after reload.

[jankapunkt]

@Zireael07 when you close -> then open your Chrome and open the developer console (F12) and (maybe repeatedly) enter speechSynthesis.getVoices() then do you get any results?

[Zireael07]

no, still says no voices. Tried googling but honestly there is nothing on WHY there are no voices and how to check if your OS has voices

[jankapunkt]

Yeah, this is a huge problem in general. Most likely there are no voices installed on your system. You can check if things are running on OS level by this topic: https://askubuntu.com/questions/589074/what-is-speech-dispatcher