Chrome Flags Reference

Chrome command line switches and startup flags for automation, headless mode, and debugging.

--enable-speech-dispatcher

What does --enable-speech-dispatcher do?

Allows sending text-to-speech requests to speech-dispatcher, a common Linux speech service. Because it's buggy, the user must explicitly enable it so that visiting a random webpage can't cause instability.

Usage

CLILaunch Chrome with --enable-speech-dispatcher using CLI

chrome --enable-speech-dispatcher

PuppeteerLaunch Chrome with --enable-speech-dispatcher using Puppeteer

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  args: ['--enable-speech-dispatcher']
});

PlaywrightLaunch Chrome with --enable-speech-dispatcher using Playwright

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  args: ['--enable-speech-dispatcher']
});

SeleniumLaunch Chrome with --enable-speech-dispatcher using Selenium

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--enable-speech-dispatcher')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

Build Conditions

LOAD_WEBUI_FROM_DISKANDROIDLINUX