SpeechSynthesisUtterance.text

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The text property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance interface gets and sets the text that will be synthesised when the utterance is spoken.

The text may be provided as plain text, or a well-formed SSML document. The SSML tags will be stripped away by devices that don't support SSML.

Syntax

var myText = speechSynthesisUtteranceInstance.text;
speechSynthesisUtteranceInstance.text = 'Hello I am speaking';

Value

A DOMString representing the text to the synthesised. The maximum length of the text that can be spoken in each utterance is 32,767 characters.

Examples

var synth = window.speechSynthesis;

var inputForm = document.querySelector('form');
var inputTxt = document.querySelector('input');
var voiceSelect = document.querySelector('select');

var voices = synth.getVoices();

  ...

inputForm.onsubmit = function(event) {
  event.preventDefault();

  var utterThis = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(inputTxt.value);
  var selectedOption = voiceSelect.selectedOptions[0].getAttribute('data-name');
  for(i = 0; i < voices.length ; i++) {
    if(voices[i].name === selectedOption) {
      utterThis.voice = voices[i];
    }
  }
  console.log(utterThis.text);
  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
text
33
14
49
No
21
7
No
33
62
No
7
3.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesisUtterance/text