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I hate when things pop up when I select text, because I have a tendency to randomly highlight text as I'm reading it. This little speaker pops up, so I clicked
by joekrill 6y ago
I hate when things pop up when I select text, because I have a tendency to randomly highlight text as I'm reading it.
This little speaker pops up, so I clicked it out of curiosity, and it started to speak the text. The icon choice is a little unusual (I'd expect a play button or something, but that icon is typically used to control volume). But then I couldn't get it to stop playing. I even closed the tab and it was still playing. And for some reason Chrome doesn't show that tab as even playing audio so I could mute it. What the heck is going on there?
- tylertringas 6y agohmm, will look into it. assume it's some default accessibility feature of our site theme
- ccheney 6y agoI tend to do the same, clicking, right-clicking, and highlighting text. Very likely using the Web Speech API[1]. I was able to reproduce your report of the audio not stopping when closing the tab so I dug a bit and found this open bug[2] in chromium. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_... [2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=517317 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=517317
- cle 6y agoI hate when I click into an HN story's comments and the top comment is someone complaining about the site's design. (This is not a personal attack on you, and I'm not trying to downplay the poor design, just that...I come to HN to read about the content of the stories, not their design.)