SpeechSynthesis: pending 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 pending read-only property of the
SpeechSynthesis interface is a boolean value that returns
true if the utterance queue contains as-yet-unspoken utterances.
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 amIPending = synth.pending; // will return true if utterance 1 is still being spoken and utterance 2 is in the queue
Specifications
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