The pending
read-only property of the SpeechSynthesis
interface is a boolean value that returns true
if the utterance queue contains as-yet-unspoken utterances.
The pending
read-only property of the SpeechSynthesis
interface is a boolean value that returns true
if the utterance queue contains as-yet-unspoken utterances.
A boolean value.
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 amIPending = synth.pending; // will return true if utterance 1 is still being spoken and utterance 2 is in the queue
Specification |
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Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesis-pending |
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
pending |
33 | 14 | 49 | No | 21 | 7 | No | 33 | 62 | No | 7 | 3.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis/pending