SpeechSynthesisEvent: charIndex property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2018.

The charIndex read-only property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance interface returns the index position of the character in SpeechSynthesisUtterance.text that was being spoken when the event was triggered.

Value

A number.

Examples

js
utterThis.onpause = (event) => {
  const char = event.utterance.text.charAt(event.charIndex);
  console.log(
    `Speech paused at character ${event.charIndex} of "${event.utterance.text}", which is "${char}".`,
  );
};

Specifications

Specification
Web Speech API
# dom-speechsynthesisevent-charindex

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also