JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Kishore Sahasranaman

HTML

<p class="t">MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.</p>
<p class="t">Joe waited for the train.</p>
<p class="t">The train was late.</p>
<p class="t">Mary and Samantha took the bus.</p>

JavaScript

var chunkLength = 120;
var pattRegex = new RegExp('^[\\s\\S]{' + Math.floor(chunkLength / 2) + ',' + chunkLength + '}[.!?,]{1}|^[\\s\\S]{1,' + chunkLength + '}$|^[\\s\\S]{1,' + chunkLength + '} ');

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('.t').each(function () {
        var arr = [];
        var element = this;
        var txt = $(this).text();
        while (txt.length > 0) {
            arr.push(txt.match(pattRegex)[0]);
            txt = txt.substring(arr[arr.length - 1].length);
        }
        $.each(arr, function () {
            var u = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(this.trim());
            window.speechSynthesis.speak(u);
        });
    });
});