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 (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
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| Web Speech API # dom-speechsynthesisvoice-lang |
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