Baseline Widely available
The SpeechSynthesisEvent()
constructor creates a new SpeechSynthesisEvent
object.
Note: A web developer doesn't typically need to call this constructor, as the browser creates these objects itself when firing events.
Syntaxnew SpeechSynthesisEvent(type, options)
Parameters
type
A string with the name of the event. It is case-sensitive and browsers set it to start
, end
, error
, pause
, resume
, mark
, or boundary
.
options
An object that, in addition to the properties defined in Event()
, has the following properties:
utterance
A SpeechSynthesisUtterance
object, which is the speech request the event was triggered on.
charIndex
Optional
The index position of the character in SpeechSynthesisUtterance.text
that was being spoken when the event was triggered. Its default value is 0
.
charLength
Optional
The number of characters left to be spoken after the character at the charIndex
position. Its default value is 0
.
elapsedTime
Optional
The elapsed time in seconds, after the SpeechSynthesisUtterance.text
started being spoken, at which the event was triggered. Its default value is 0
.
name
Optional
The name associated with certain types of events: 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. It defaults to the empty string (""
).
A new SpeechSynthesisEvent
object.
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