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.
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.
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 amISpeaking = synth.speaking; // will return true if utterance 1 or utterance 2 are currently being spoken
Specification |
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Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesis-speaking |
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speaking |
33 | 14 | 49 | No | 21 | 7 | No | 33 | 62 | No | 7 | 3.0 |
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