SpeechSynthesis: speaking 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 speaking
read-only property of the
SpeechSynthesis
interface is a boolean value that returns
true
if an utterance is currently in the process of being spoken — even
if SpeechSynthesis
is in a
paused
state.
Value
A boolean value.
Examples
js
const synth = window.speechSynthesis;
const utterance1 = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(
"How about we say this now? This is quite a long sentence to say.",
);
const utterance2 = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(
"We should say another sentence too, just to be on the safe side.",
);
synth.speak(utterance1);
synth.speak(utterance2);
const amISpeaking = synth.speaking; // will return true if utterance 1 or utterance 2 are currently being spoken
Specifications
Specification |
---|
Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesis-speaking |
Browser compatibility
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