This is an experimental technologyCheck the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The rate
property of the SpeechSynthesisUtterance
interface gets and sets the speed at which the utterance will be spoken at.
If unset, a default value of 1 will be used.
Syntax
var myRate = speechSynthesisUtteranceInstance.rate; speechSynthesisUtteranceInstance.rate = 1.5;
Value
A float representing the rate value. It can range between 0.1 (lowest) and 10 (highest), with 1 being the default pitch for the current platform or voice, which should correspond to a normal speaking rate. Other values act as a percentage relative to this, so for example 2 is twice as fast, 0.5 is half as fast, etc.
Some speech synthesis engines or voices may constrain the minimum and maximum rates further. If SSML is used, this value will be overridden by prosody tags in the markup.
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];
}
}
utterThis.rate = 1.5;
synth.speak(utterThis);
inputTxt.blur();
}
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
Web Speech APIThe definition of 'rate' 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.
Update compatibility data on GitHub
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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
No support No |
Chrome Android
Full support 33 |
Firefox Android Full support 62 Full support 62 No support 61 — 62 Disabled' From version 61 until version 62 (exclusive): this feature is behind the |
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.
See also
SpeechSynthesisUtterance.rate by Mozilla Contributors is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.