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SpeechSynthesisVoice: name 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 name read-only property of the SpeechSynthesisVoice interface returns a human-readable name that represents the voice.

Value

A string representing the name of the voice.

Examples

for (const voice of voices) {
  const option = document.createElement("option");
  option.textContent = `${voice.name} (${voice.lang})`;

  if (voice.default) {
    option.textContent += " — DEFAULT";
  }

  option.setAttribute("data-lang", voice.lang);
  option.setAttribute("data-name", voice.name);
  voiceSelect.appendChild(option);
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
name 33 14 49 21 7 33 62 No 7 3.0 No 7

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesisVoice/name