This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The name
read-only property of the SpeechSynthesisVoice
interface returns a human-readable name that represents the voice.
Syntax
var voiceName = speechSynthesisVoiceInstance.name;
Value
A DOMString
representing the name of the voice.
Examples
for(i = 0; i < voices.length ; i++) { var option = document.createElement('option'); option.textContent = voices[i].name + ' (' + voices[i].lang + ')'; if(voices[i].default) { option.textContent += ' -- DEFAULT'; } option.setAttribute('data-lang', voices[i].lang); option.setAttribute('data-name', voices[i].name); voiceSelect.appendChild(option); }
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Web Speech API The definition of 'name' in that specification. |
Draft |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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name | Chrome Full support 33 | Edge Full support 14 | Firefox Full support 49 | IE No support No | Opera Full support 21 | Safari Full support 7 | WebView Android Full support 4.4.3 | Chrome Android Full support 33 | Firefox Android
Full support
62
| Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS Full support 7 | Samsung Internet Android Full support 3.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.