easy-speech icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
easy-speech copied to clipboard

EasySpeech.speak stop currently playing speech

Open ivoryguard opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments
trafficstars

Hello.

The speak method of the W3C SpeechSynthesis API is responsible for queuing a SpeechSynthesisUtterance for text-to-speech (TTS). Therefore, window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance) allows new text to be played without interrupting the currently playing speech.

However, when the EasySpeech.speak method is called, the current speech stops and the new text is played.

It seems that EasySpeech.speak should operate in a way similar to window.speechSynthesis.speak, adding the new SpeechSynthesisUtterance to the queue without interrupting the currently playing speech.

Or, is there a way for EasySpeech.speak to not interrupt the currently playing speech?

ivoryguard avatar Apr 16 '24 10:04 ivoryguard

Hi @ivoryguard and thank you for pointing this out. Currently this is hard-coded into EasySpeech. However, it should be easy (haha) to add another flag noStop to the speech method that, if truthy, will circumvent calling the stop method. What do you think? Mind to create a PR for this?

jankapunkt avatar Apr 16 '24 11:04 jankapunkt

I did it.

ivoryguard avatar Apr 23 '24 03:04 ivoryguard

Please try [email protected] and let me know if things work as expected

jankapunkt avatar Apr 25 '24 07:04 jankapunkt