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+<p id="classSummary"> |
+Use the <code>chrome.ttsEngine</code> module to |
+implement a text-to-speech (TTS) engine using an extension. If your |
+extension registers using this API, it will receive events containing |
+an utterance to be spoken and other parameters when any extension or packaged |
+app uses the |
+<a href="tts.html">tts</a> |
+module to generate speech. Your extension can then use any available |
+web technology to synthesize and output the speech, and send events back |
+to the calling function to report the status. |
+</p> |
+<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> |
+<p>An extension can register itself as a speech engine. By doing so, it |
+can intercept some or all calls to functions such as |
+<a href="tts.html#method-speak"><code>speak()</code></a> and |
+<a href="tts.html#method-stop"><code>stop()</code></a> |
+and provide an alternate implementation. |
+Extensions are free to use any available web technology |
+to provide speech, including streaming audio from a server, HTML5 audio, |
+Native Client, or Flash. An extension could even do something different |
+with the utterances, like display closed captions in a pop-up window or |
+send them as log messages to a remote server.</p> |
+<h2 id="manifest">Manifest</h2> |
+<p>To implement a TTS engine, an extension must |
+declare the "ttsEngine" permission and then declare all voices |
+it provides in the extension manifest, like this:</p> |
+<pre>{ |
+ "name": "My TTS Engine", |
+ "version": "1.0", |
+ <b>"permissions": ["ttsEngine"], |
+ "tts_engine": { |
+ "voices": [ |
+ { |
+ "voice_name": "Alice", |
+ "lang": "en-US", |
+ "gender": "female", |
+ "event_types": ["start", "marker", "end"] |
+ }, |
+ { |
+ "voice_name": "Pat", |
+ "lang": "en-US", |
+ "event_types": ["end"] |
+ } |
+ ] |
+ },</b> |
+ "background_page": "background.html", |
+}</pre> |
+<p>An extension can specify any number of voices.</p> |
+<p>The <code>voice_name</code> parameter is required. The name should be |
+descriptive enough that it identifies the name of the voice and the |
+engine used. In the unlikely event that two extensions register voices |
+with the same name, a client can specify the ID of the extension that |
+should do the synthesis.</p> |
+<p>The <code>gender</code> parameter is optional. If your voice corresponds |
+to a male or female voice, you can use this parameter to help clients |
+choose the most appropriate voice for their application.</p> |
+<p>The <code>lang</code> parameter is optional, but highly recommended. |
+Almost always, a voice can synthesize speech in just a single language. |
+When an engine supports more than one language, it can easily register a |
+separate voice for each language. Under rare circumstances where a single |
+voice can handle more than one language, it's easiest to just list two |
+separate voices and handle them using the same logic internally. However, |
+if you want to create a voice that will handle utterances in any language, |
+leave out the <code>lang</code> parameter from your extension's manifest.</p> |
+<p>Finally, the <code>event_types</code> parameter is required if the engine can |
+send events to update the client on the progress of speech synthesis. |
+At a minimum, supporting the <code>'end'</code> event type to indicate |
+when speech is finished is highly recommended, otherwise Chrome cannot |
+schedule queued utterances.</p> |
+<p class="note"> |
+<strong>Note:</strong> If your TTS engine does not support |
+the <code>'end'</code> event type, Chrome cannot queue utterances |
+because it has no way of knowing when your utterance has finished. To |
+help mitigate this, Chrome passes an additional boolean <code>enqueue</code> |
+option to your engine's onSpeak handler, giving you the option of |
+implementing your own queueing. This is discouraged because then |
+clients are unable to queue utterances that should get spoken by different |
+speech engines.</p> |
+<p>The possible event types that you can send correspond to the event types |
+that the <code>speak()</code> method receives:</p> |
+<ul> |
+ <li><code>'start'</code>: The engine has started speaking the utterance. |
+ <li><code>'word'</code>: A word boundary was reached. Use |
+ <code>event.charIndex</code> to determine the current speech |
+ position. |
+ <li><code>'sentence'</code>: A sentence boundary was reached. Use |
+ <code>event.charIndex</code> to determine the current speech |
+ position. |
+ <li><code>'marker'</code>: An SSML marker was reached. Use |
+ <code>event.charIndex</code> to determine the current speech |
+ position. |
+ <li><code>'end'</code>: The engine has finished speaking the utterance. |
+ <li><code>'error'</code>: An engine-specific error occurred and |
+ this utterance cannot be spoken. |
+ Pass more information in <code>event.errorMessage</code>. |
+</ul> |
+<p>The <code>'interrupted'</code> and <code>'cancelled'</code> events are |
+not sent by the speech engine; they are generated automatically by Chrome.</p> |
+<p>Text-to-speech clients can get the voice information from your |
+extension's manifest by calling |
+<a href="tts.html#method-getVoices">getVoices()</a>, |
+assuming you've registered speech event listeners as described below.</p> |
+<h2 id="handling_speech_events">Handling speech events</h2> |
+<p>To generate speech at the request of clients, your extension must |
+register listeners for both <code>onSpeak</code> and <code>onStop</code>, |
+like this:</p> |
+<pre>var speakListener = function(utterance, options, sendTtsEvent) { |
+ sendTtsEvent({'event_type': 'start', 'charIndex': 0}) |
+ // (start speaking) |
+ sendTtsEvent({'event_type': 'end', 'charIndex': utterance.length}) |
+}; |
+var stopListener = function() { |
+ // (stop all speech) |
+}; |
+chrome.ttsEngine.onSpeak.addListener(speakListener); |
+chrome.ttsEngine.onStop.addListener(stopListener);</pre> |
+<p class="warning"> |
+<b>Important:</b> |
+If your extension does not register listeners for both |
+<code>onSpeak</code> and <code>onStop</code>, it will not intercept any |
+speech calls, regardless of what is in the manifest.</p> |
+<p>The decision of whether or not to send a given speech request to an |
+extension is based solely on whether the extension supports the given voice |
+parameters in its manifest and has registered listeners |
+for <code>onSpeak</code> and <code>onStop</code>. In other words, |
+there's no way for an extension to receive a speech request and |
+dynamically decide whether to handle it.</p> |