{"json_modified": "2016-06-30T13:29:57.885966", "uuid": "5c064423-9d0c-4f7e-b44d-0ec5abac5fe1", "title": "SpeechSynthesis.speaking", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis/speaking", "tags": ["synthesis", "API", "Reference", "SpeechSynthesis", "Property", "Experimental", "speaking", "Web Speech API", "speech"], "translations": [], "modified": "2016-06-30T13:29:58", "label": "SpeechSynthesis.speaking", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 167705, "last_edit": "2016-06-30T13:29:53", "summary": "The <strong><code>speaking</code></strong> read-only property of the <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis\" title=\"The SpeechSynthesis interface of the Web Speech API is the controller interface for the speech service; this can be used to retrieve information about the synthesis voices available on the device, start and pause speech, and other commands besides.\"><code>SpeechSynthesis</code></a> interface is a <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/Boolean\" title=\"The Boolean object is an object wrapper for a boolean value.\"><code>Boolean</code></a> that returns <code>true</code> if an utterance is currently in the process of being spoken \u2014 even if <code>SpeechSynthesis</code> is in a <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis/pause\" title=\"The pause() method of the SpeechSynthesis interface puts the SpeechSynthesis object into a paused state.\"><code>paused</code></a> state.", "sections": [{"id": "Quick_Links", "title": null}, {"id": "Syntax", "title": "Syntax"}, {"id": "Value", "title": "Value"}, {"id": "Examples", "title": "Examples"}, {"id": "Specifications", "title": "Specifications"}, {"id": "Browser_compatibility", "title": "Browser compatibility"}, {"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Web/API/SpeechSynthesis/speaking", "review_tags": []}