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 |
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Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesis-paused |
Browser compatibility
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