SpeechSynthesis: paused property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2018.

The paused read-only property of the SpeechSynthesis interface is a boolean value that returns true if the SpeechSynthesis object is in a paused state, or false if not.

It can be set to paused even if nothing is currently being spoken through it. If utterances are then added to the utterance queue, they will not be spoken until the SpeechSynthesis object is unpaused, using SpeechSynthesis.resume().

Value

A boolean value.

Examples

js
const synth = window.speechSynthesis;

synth.pause();

const amIPaused = synth.paused; // will return true

Specifications

Specification
Web Speech API
# dom-speechsynthesis-paused

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
paused

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