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().
A boolean value.
const synth = window.speechSynthesis; synth.pause(); const amIPaused = synth.paused; // will return true
| Specification |
|---|
| Web Speech API> # dom-speechsynthesis-paused> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
paused |
33 | 14 | 49 | 21 | 7 | 33 | 62 | No | 7 | 3.0 | No | 7 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis/paused