SpeechSynthesis: paused 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 paused read-only property of the
SpeechSynthesis interface is a boolean value that returns
true if the SpeechSynthesis object is in a paused state, or false if not.
It can be set to paused even if nothing is
currently being spoken through it. If
utterances are then added to the utterance
queue, they will not be spoken until the SpeechSynthesis object is
unpaused, using SpeechSynthesis.resume().
Value
A boolean value.
Examples
js
const synth = window.speechSynthesis;
synth.pause();
const amIPaused = synth.paused; // will return true
Specifications
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