This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The paused
read-only property of the SpeechSynthesis
interface is a Boolean
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()
.
Syntax
var amIPaused = speechSynthesisInstance.paused;
Value
A Boolean
.
Examples
var synth = window.speechSynthesis; synth.pause(); var amIPaused = synth.paused; // will return true
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Web Speech API The definition of 'paused' in that specification. |
Draft |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
paused | Chrome Full support 33 | Edge Full support 14 | Firefox Full support 49 | IE No support No | Opera Full support 21 | Safari Full support 7 | WebView Android Full support 4.4.3 | Chrome Android Full support 33 | Firefox Android
Full support
62
| Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS Full support 7 | Samsung Internet Android Full support 3.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.