Chrome Speech Synthesis with longer texts

Question

I am getting a problem when trying to use Speech Synthesis API in Chrome 33. It works perfectly with a shorter text, but if I try longer text, it just stops in the middle. A

Answer 1

A simple and effective solution is to resume periodically.

function resumeInfinity() {
    window.speechSynthesis.resume();
    timeoutResumeInfinity = setTimeout(resumeInfinity, 1000);
}

You can associate this with the onend and onstart events, so you will only be invoking the resume if necessary. Something like:

var utterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();

utterance.onstart = function(event) {
    resumeInfinity();
};

utterance.onend = function(event) {
    clearTimeout(timeoutResumeInfinity);
};

I discovered this by chance!

Hope this help!