The cancel()
method of the SpeechSynthesis
interface removes all utterances from the utterance queue.
If an utterance is currently being spoken, speaking will stop immediately.
The cancel()
method of the SpeechSynthesis
interface removes all utterances from the utterance queue.
If an utterance is currently being spoken, speaking will stop immediately.
js
cancel()
None.
None (undefined
).
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); synth.cancel(); // utterance1 stops being spoken immediately, and both are removed from the queue
Specification |
---|
Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesis-cancel |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
cancel |
33 | 14 | 49 | No | 21 | 7 | No | 33 | 62 | No | 7 | 3.0 |
© 2005–2023 MDN contributors.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis/cancel