SpeechSynthesis: speaking property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2018.
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.
Value
A boolean value.
Examples
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 Specifications
| Specification |
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| Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesis-speaking |