| title | short-title | slug | page-type | browser-compat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SpeechSynthesis: paused property |
paused |
Web/API/SpeechSynthesis/paused |
web-api-instance-property |
api.SpeechSynthesis.paused |
{{APIRef("Web Speech API")}}
The paused read-only property of the
{{domxref("SpeechSynthesis")}} interface is a boolean value that returns
true if the SpeechSynthesis object is in a paused state, or false if not.
It can be set to {{domxref("SpeechSynthesis.pause()", "paused")}} even if nothing is
currently being spoken through it. If
{{domxref("SpeechSynthesisUtterance","utterances")}} are then added to the utterance
queue, they will not be spoken until the SpeechSynthesis object is
unpaused, using {{domxref("SpeechSynthesis.resume()")}}.
A boolean value.
const synth = window.speechSynthesis;
synth.pause();
const amIPaused = synth.paused; // will return true{{Specifications}}
{{Compat}}