SpeechSynthesisUtterance.onboundary

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The onboundary property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance interface represents an event handler that will run when the spoken utterance reaches a word or sentence boundary (when the boundary event fires.)

Syntax

speechSynthesisUtteranceInstance.onboundary = function() { ... };

Examples

var synth = window.speechSynthesis;

var inputForm = document.querySelector('form');
var inputTxt = document.querySelector('input');
var voiceSelect = document.querySelector('select');

var voices = synth.getVoices();

  ...

inputForm.onsubmit = function(event) {
  event.preventDefault();

  var utterThis = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(inputTxt.value);
  var selectedOption = voiceSelect.selectedOptions[0].getAttribute('data-name');
  for(i = 0; i < voices.length ; i++) {
    if(voices[i].name === selectedOption) {
      utterThis.voice = voices[i];
    }
  }

  synth.speak(utterThis);

  utterThis.onboundary = function(event) {
    console.log(event.name + ' boundary reached after ' + event.elapsedTime + ' seconds.');
  }

  inputTxt.blur();
}

Specifications

Specification
Web Speech API
# dom-speechsynthesisutterance-onboundary

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also