Chapter 9

The Web Speech API

Examples

Recipe 9.1
Dictating Text

Dictate into a text field with the Web Speech API.

Recipe 9.2
Creating a Promise Helper for Speech Recognition

Encapsulate speech recognition in a helper function that uses Promises.

Recipe 9.3
Getting the Available Voices

Get a list of the supported speech synthesis voices.

Recipe 9.4
Synthesizing Speech

Use a synthesized voice to speak some given text.

Recipe 9.5
Customizing Speech Synthesis

Use the properties of SpeechSynthesisUtterance to fine-tune the spoken text.

Recipe 9.6
Automatically Pausing Speech

Pause speech synthesis when switching to another tab, and resume when returning to the tab.

Web API Cookbook
Joe Attardi