Play, Pause, & Skip
These events can be massively useful for analytics purposes and for building any custom UI you'd like around Speechify's API functionality.
Playing​
Event name: play
. This event is fired when the player starts playing for the first time.
Resumed​
Event name: resume
. This event is fired when the player resumes playing after being paused.
Paused​
Event name: pause
. This event is fired when the player starts becomes paused.
Skipped Forward​
Event name: skipped-forward
. This event is fired when the user clicks the skip forwards button to skip to the next sentence.
Skipped Backward​
Event name: skipped-backward
. This event is fired when the user clicks the skip backwards button to the previous sentence.