SpeechSynthesisEvent: utterance 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 2022.
The utterance read-only property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance interface returns the SpeechSynthesisUtterance instance that the event was triggered on.
Value
A SpeechSynthesisUtterance object.
Examples
js
utterThis.onpause = (event) => {
const char = event.utterance.text.charAt(event.charIndex);
console.log(
`Speech paused at character ${event.charIndex} of "${event.utterance.text}", which is "${char}".`,
);
};
Specifications
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| Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesisevent-utterance |
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