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.
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_speechdispa tcher_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 .synth. enabled false
media.webspeech
And this also seems to be a duplicate (or at least related) bug report to this one: /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ speech- dispatcher/ +bug/1821439
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And other variants of Linux are reporting Firefox speech-dispatcher issues as well: /bugzilla. redhat. com/show_ bug.cgi? id=1936901
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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.