SpeechSynthesisVoice: lang property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2018.
The lang
read-only property of the SpeechSynthesisVoice
interface returns a BCP 47 language tag indicating the language of the voice.
Value
A string representing the language of the device.
Examples
js
for (let i = 0; i < voices.length; i++) {
const 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 |
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Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesisvoice-lang |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser