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.) 
speechSynthesisUtteranceInstance.onboundary = function() { ... };
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(); }
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| Web Speech API  # dom-speechsynthesisutterance-onboundary  | 
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The  
boundary event does not fire as expected. See bug 1122143. | 
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