The SpeechSynthesis
interface of the Web Speech API is the controller interface for the speech service; this can be used to retrieve information about the synthesis voices available on the device, start and pause speech, and other commands besides.
Documentation SpeechSynthesis by Mozilla Contributors, licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.
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Variables
onvoiceschanged:Function
Fired when the list of SpeechSynthesisVoice
objects that would be returned by the SpeechSynthesis.getVoices()
method has changed.
read onlyspeaking:Bool
A Boolean
that returns true
if an utterance is currently in the process of being spoken — even if SpeechSynthesis
is in a paused state.
Methods
getVoices():Array<SpeechSynthesisVoice>
Returns a list of SpeechSynthesisVoice
objects representing all the available voices on the current device.
resume():Void
Puts the SpeechSynthesis
object into a non-paused state: resumes it if it was already paused.
speak(utterance:SpeechSynthesisUtterance):Void
Adds an SpeechSynthesisUtterance
to the utterance queue; it will be spoken when any other utterances queued before it have been spoken.