SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2018.
The SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent interface of the Web Speech API contains information about any errors that occur while processing SpeechSynthesisUtterance objects in the speech service.
Constructor
SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent()-
Creates a new
SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent.
Instance properties
SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent extends the SpeechSynthesisEvent interface, which inherits properties from its parent interface, Event.
SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent.errorRead only-
Returns an error code indicating what has gone wrong with a speech synthesis attempt.
Instance methods
SpeechSynthesisErrorEvent extends the SpeechSynthesisEvent interface, which inherits methods from its parent interface, Event.
Examples
js
const synth = window.speechSynthesis; const inputForm = document.querySelector("form"); const inputTxt = document.querySelector("input"); const voiceSelect = document.querySelector("select"); const voices = synth.getVoices(); // … inputForm.onsubmit = (event) => { event.preventDefault(); const utterThis = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(inputTxt.value); const selectedOption = voiceSelect.selectedOptions[0].getAttribute("data-name"); for (const voice of voices) { if (voice.name === selectedOption) { utterThis.voice = voice; } } synth.speak(utterThis); utterThis.onerror = (event) => { console.log( `An error has occurred with the speech synthesis: ${event.error}`, ); }; inputTxt.blur(); }; Specifications
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| Web Speech API # speechsynthesiserrorevent |