Test of the speech synthesis api

speech-synthesis-api-test.js

//should speak in a british voice
// https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk-Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API
var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance();
var voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices();
msg.voice = voices[4]; // Note: some voices don't support altering params
msg.voiceURI = 'native';
msg.volume = 1; // 0 to 1
msg.rate = 1; // 0.1 to 10
msg.pitch = 1; //0 to 2
msg.text = ' This is a test';
msg.lang = 'en-US';

msg.onend = function(e) {
  console.log('Finished in ' + event.elapsedTime + ' seconds.');
};

speechSynthesis.speak(msg);