js-speech.md

   1 ---
   2 title: JavaScript speech synthesis
   3 category: JavaScript
   4 layout: 2017/sheet
   5 weight: -1
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   7
   8 ## SpeechSynthesisUtterance
   9 {: .-one-column}
  10
  11 ```js
  12 function speak (message) {
  13   var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(message)
  14   var voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices()
  15   msg.voice = voices[0]
  16   window.speechSynthesis.speak(msg)
  17 }
  18 ```
  19
  20 ```js
  21 speak('Hello, world')
  22 ```
  23
  24 See: [SpeechSynthesisUtterance](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesisUtterance) _(developer.mozilla.org)_