Does any canonical sutta say you can attain enlightenment *while* chanting?
I posted an answer here, over at Sutta Central Forum:

... in the Aṅguttara Nikāya The Book of the Fives, Sutta 26, &quot;Liberation&quot;, the &quot;five bases of liberation&quot; are listed.
Number three is &quot;Reciting the Dhamma&quot;. The pali term for &quot;Reciting&quot; is &quot;sajjhāyaṃ karoti&quot;, which can also be translated as &quot;chanting&quot;, however the chanting referred to here must be deeply understood by the one chanting. That is to say, the type of chanting here is not as in incanting a mystical, magical spell in an arcane language, where you don't know what the words mean, where the power is inherent to the sound of the words.