SpeechSynthesisUtterance: voice property
The voice
property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance
interface gets and sets the voice that will be used to speak the utterance.
This should be set to one of the SpeechSynthesisVoice
objects returned by SpeechSynthesis.getVoices()
. If not set by the time the utterance is spoken, the voice used will be the most suitable default voice available for the utterance's lang
setting.
Value
Examples
const synth = window.speechSynthesis;
const inputForm = document.querySelector("form");
const inputTxt = document.querySelector("input");
const voiceSelect = document.querySelector("select");
const voices = synth.getVoices();
inputForm.onsubmit = (event) => {
event.preventDefault();
const utterThis = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(inputTxt.value);
const selectedOption =
voiceSelect.selectedOptions[0].getAttribute("data-name");
for (let i = 0; i < voices.length; i++) {
if (voices[i].name === selectedOption) {
utterThis.voice = voices[i];
}
}
synth.speak(utterThis);
inputTxt.blur();
};
Specifications
Browser compatibility
|
Desktop |
Mobile |
|
Chrome |
Edge |
Firefox |
Internet Explorer |
Opera |
Safari |
WebView Android |
Chrome Android |
Firefox for Android |
Opera Android |
Safari on IOS |
Samsung Internet |
voice |
33 |
14 |
49 |
No |
21 |
7 |
No |
33 |
62 |
No |
7 |
3.0 |
See also