Text to Speech Highlighted Selected Text

This example shows how to speak any User Selected Text when they complete highlighting(mouseup).

Try this anywhere on this website. Go ahead, highlight this sentence.

This is example code to add just before the closing body tag.

<script> 
function getSelectionText() {
    var text = "";
    if (window.getSelection) {
        text = window.getSelection().toString();
    // for Internet Explorer 8 and below. For Blogger, you should use &amp;&amp; instead of &&.
    } else if (document.selection && document.selection.type != "Control") { 
        text = document.selection.createRange().text;
    }
    return text;
}
$(document).ready(function (){ // when the document has completed loading
   $(document).mouseup(function (e){ // attach the mouseup event for all div and pre tags
      setTimeout(function() { // When clicking on a highlighted area, the value stays highlighted until after the mouseup event, and would therefore stil be captured by getSelection. This micro-timeout solves the issue. 
         responsiveVoice.cancel(); // stop anything currently being spoken
         responsiveVoice.speak(getSelectionText()); //speak the text as returned by getSelectionText
      }, 1);
   });
});
</script>

Keywords: text selection, highlighted text, selected text