SpeechSynthesisUtterance.text

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 represenitng 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

Specification	Status	Comment
Web Speech API The definition of 'text' in that specification.	Draft

Browser compatibility

See also

• Web Speech API