AudioBlur: Text To Speech headline reader for NewsBlue

gistfile1.js

textToBeSpoken = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
		textToBeSpoken.volume = 1; // 0 to 1
		textToBeSpoken.rate = 10; // 0.1 to 10
		textToBeSpoken.pitch = 2; //0 to 2
		textToBeSpoken.lang = 'en-US';

		function checkForChanges() {
			currentlySelectedItem = document.getElementsByClassName('NB-feed-story NB-river-story read NB-selected');
				if (currentlySelectedItem.length == 0) {
					setTimeout(checkForChanges, 500);
				}		
				else {
					//console.log('this article has already been read');
					//console.log(currentlySelectedItem[0].getElementsByClassName('NB-feed-story-title')[0].innerHTML);
					if (currentlySelectedItem[0].id == 'spoken') {
						setTimeout(checkForChanges,1000)
					}
		    		else {
		    			speechSynthesis.cancel();
		    			console.log('the app should be speaking')
		    			currentlySelectedItem[0].id = 'spoken';
		    			console.log(currentlySelectedItem[0].id)

		    			//extract the headline
						currentlySelectedHeadline = currentlySelectedItem[0].getElementsByClassName('NB-feed-story-title')[0].innerHTML;

						//extract the article body
						currentlySelectedArticle = currentlySelectedItem[0].getElementsByClassName('NB-feed-story-content')[0].textContent;
						wordArray = currentlySelectedArticle.match(/\S+\s*/g);
						
						//break article body into blocks of text
						phraseArray = [''];
						var y = 0;
						var i = 1;
						length = wordArray.length //set once since we are shifting array values
						while (i <= length) {
							while (i % 25 != 0) {
								phraseArray[y] += wordArray.shift();
								i++	
								if (i == length) break;
							}
							i++;
							y++;
							phraseArray[y] = '';				
						};

						console.log(currentlySelectedHeadline + currentlySelectedArticle);

						//speak headline
						textToBeSpoken.text = currentlySelectedHeadline;
						speechSynthesis.speak(textToBeSpoken);
						
						setTimeout(checkForChanges,500)
					
		    		}

				};	
		    
		};

		checkForChanges();


		//add hotkey to repeat last utterance - Hotkey is Q
		window.onkeypress = function (e) {
			char =  e.keyCode;
			console.log(char);
			if (char == 113) {
				speechSynthesis.cancel();
				console.log("success!");
				textToBeSpoken.text = currentlySelectedHeadline;
				speechSynthesis.speak(textToBeSpoken);
			}
		};