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fix(speech): Safely filter speech voices on iOS Brave - #1506

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This PR addresses a TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'Object.getPrototypeOf(voice)') that occurred when readVoices() was called, specifically on iOS Brave (and potentially other WebKit-based browsers).

The root cause was that window.speechSynthesis.getVoices() on these platforms could return an array-like object containing uninitialized or undefined entries. The subsequent .filter(Boolean) call would then cause the JavaScript engine to attempt Object.getPrototypeOf() on these undefined elements, leading to a crash.

The fix involves two steps:

  1. Using Array.from(window.speechSynthesis.getVoices() ?? []) to safely convert the potentially non-standard SpeechSynthesisVoiceList into a proper JavaScript array, handling cases where getVoices() might return null or undefined itself (though unlikely).
  2. Replacing .filter(Boolean) with a more robust type-guard filter: (v): v is SpeechSynthesisVoice => v != null && typeof v === "object". This explicitly checks for null and undefined values, preventing the TypeError by ensuring Object.getPrototypeOf() is only called on valid SpeechSynthesisVoice objects.

This change ensures the text-to-speech functionality works reliably on affected browsers without impacting behavior on compliant browsers.

Fixes ECENCY-NEXT-1GMR

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feruzm commented Aug 18, 2026

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Closing: the issue is real but this change leaves the failing path untouched.

The symbolicated stack for ECENCY-NEXT-1GMR ends:

./src/utils/speech.ts | readVoices | 18:45
[native code]         | getPrototypeOf

Column 45 on line 18 is the ( of getVoices(). .filter starts at column 48. So the throw happens inside window.speechSynthesis.getVoices(), before any filtering runs. The variable in the message, voice, does not exist in our source: it is iOS Brave's fingerprint-farbling shim, which wraps getVoices and builds its fake voice from Object.getPrototypeOf(voices[0]). On iOS the first call routinely returns an empty list, so the shim dereferences undefined.

Two consequences:

  • Array.from(window.speechSynthesis.getVoices() ?? []) still calls getVoices() first, so it throws exactly as before.
  • .filter(Boolean) does not throw on undefined entries in the first place, so it was never the site. [undefined, {...}, null].filter(Boolean) returns [{...}].

Fixed in #1526 by reading the voice list through a try/catch that returns [], which is the state the voiceschanged listener and the poll fallback already handle. Regression tests added to apps/web/src/specs/utils/speech.spec.ts; they fail on develop with the exact production error.

@feruzm feruzm closed this Aug 18, 2026
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