Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #1906741
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1906741

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Donna Whisnant (dewhisna) wrote : Re: Firefox sometimes causes garbled audio

Once I discovered the connection with speech-dispatcher on my system (as noted above), I did some related searches and found a reddit article (https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7n5vn6/linux_firefox_and_speechdispatcher_are_making/) related to this that indicates if you disable both the webspeech option and the reader it solves it:

reader.parse-on-load.enabled false
media.webspeech.synth.enabled false

And this also seems to be a duplicate (or at least related) bug report to this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speech-dispatcher/+bug/1821439

And other variants of Linux are reporting Firefox speech-dispatcher issues as well:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1936901

I had previously experimented with only the webspeech option, to no avail, but I have now disabled both the webspeech option and the reader on mine. So far, I haven't had any issues with garbled sound since, but only time will tell. I suppose it would still be an issue for those who need text-to-speech support on their system and can't disable these things.