Michael Scharnagl • 5/19/2020

Read out loud - Text to speech with the Web Speech API.

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This article provides a practical tutorial on using the Web Speech API for text-to-speech in web development. It covers checking browser support, retrieving available voices, creating and configuring speech utterances, and controlling playback (speak, pause, resume, cancel). It also addresses common issues like voice loading delays in Chrome and handling line breaks.

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