responsivevoice not working in Safari

Question

I was checking this Javascript Text-to-Speech conversion API - http://responsivevoice.org/, for one of my projects.

I have created a snippet out of the fiddle to demonstrate the problem:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://responsivevoice.org/responsivevoice/responsivevoice.js"></script>

<textarea id="text" cols="45" rows="3">Hello, world!</textarea>
 
<input 
  onclick="responsiveVoice.speak($('#text').val(),'US English Female');" 
  type="button" 
  value="Play" 
/>

In Safari 5.1.7 on Windows 8.1, I am getting the following error in the console:

TypeError: 'undefined' is not a constructor (evaluating 'new Audio(url)') pointing to the responsivevoice library.

It works fine on Chrome and Firefox. How do I get this working in Safari?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '15 at 08:05

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It is a known issue with safari And HTML5 Audio. install quick time and follow this link:

http://infobrink.com/safari-not-liking-the-html5-audio/

answered Jan 11 '15 at 08:05

griffon vulture

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Is there an easier way? Apparently, we cant do this on client's machine. – Rahul Desai Jan 11 '15 at 09:16
Follow-up question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27885616/cant-detect-if-responsivevoice-isplaying – Rahul Desai Jan 11 '15 at 09:29

responsivevoice not working in Safari

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