What is the Speech Dispatcher library?

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Hi

I've been using for a long time the online dictionary https://en.pons.com/text-translation/french-english and the voice output stopped working (translate.google.com works though).

My firefox showed me this error message: You can't use speech synthesis because the Speech Dispatcher library is missing. and linked this page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/speechd-setup?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

google-chrome doesn't have this issue, either. So I assumed I was missing an use flag, but when I checked the use flags with "equery uses www-client/firefox", I could not find any use flag related to speech. So what is Firefox talking about? app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher ? If so, why isn't it a dependency of firefox?
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[pjp]

On the mozilla page you linked, the first paragraph references "Speech Dispatcher" at github. That github references https://freebsoft.org/speechd which seems to be in ::gentoo.

[Genone]

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Ok, thanks for the responses, I'll try it later
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