The text
property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance
interface gets and sets the text that will be synthesized when the utterance is spoken.
The text may be provided as plain text, or a well-formed SSML document. The SSML tags will be stripped away by devices that don't support SSML.
A DOMString
representing the text to the synthesized. The maximum length of the text that can be spoken in each utterance is 32,767 characters.
var synth = window.speechSynthesis;
var inputForm = document.querySelector('form');
var inputTxt = document.querySelector('input');
var voiceSelect = document.querySelector('select');
var voices = synth.getVoices();
...
inputForm.onsubmit = function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var utterThis = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(inputTxt.value);
var selectedOption = voiceSelect.selectedOptions[0].getAttribute('data-name');
for(i = 0; i < voices.length ; i++) {
if(voices[i].name === selectedOption) {
utterThis.voice = voices[i];
}
}
console.log(utterThis.text);
synth.speak(utterThis);
inputTxt.blur();
}