SpeechSynthesisEvent: name 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 name read-only property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance interface returns the name associated with certain types of events occurring as the SpeechSynthesisUtterance.text is being spoken:
the name of the SSML marker reached in the case of a mark event, or the type of boundary reached in the case of a boundary event.
Value
A string.
Examples
js
utterThis.onboundary = (event) => {
console.log(
`${event.name} boundary reached after ${event.elapsedTime} seconds.`,
);
};
Specifications
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| Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesisevent-name |
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