diff --git a/src/collective/texttospeech/browser/templates/texttospeech.pt b/src/collective/texttospeech/browser/templates/texttospeech.pt
index db1abb2..5ff797a 100644
--- a/src/collective/texttospeech/browser/templates/texttospeech.pt
+++ b/src/collective/texttospeech/browser/templates/texttospeech.pt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <div i18n:domain="collective.texttospeech"
      id="viewlet-texttospeech"
-     data-label-stopped="🔊 Listen"
-     data-label-playing="⏸ Pause"
-     data-label-paused="▶ Resume"
+     data-label-stopped="Listen"
+     data-label-playing="Pause"
+     data-label-paused="Resume"
      data-error-message="Could not load ResponsiveVoice library; Text-To-Speech feature is disabled or is not available."
      tal:attributes="data-voice view/voice;
                      data-enabled view/enabled"
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
                       data-label-playing;
                       data-label-paused;
                       data-error-message">
-     <input id="texttospeech-button"
+     <button id="texttospeech-button"
           class="stopped"
           type="button"
-          value="🔊 Listen"
           title="Speech synthesis control"
           tal:condition="view/enabled"
-          i18n:attributes="value; title" />
+          i18n:attributes="title"
+          i18n:translate="">Listen</button>
 </div>
diff --git a/src/collective/texttospeech/static/main.js b/src/collective/texttospeech/static/main.js
index bd7ec0b..2bf7819 100644
--- a/src/collective/texttospeech/static/main.js
+++ b/src/collective/texttospeech/static/main.js
@@ -14,23 +14,23 @@ var MainView = (function() {
   MainView.prototype.onstart = function() {
     this.playing = true;
     this.paused = false;
-    this.$button.attr('value', this.label_playing);
+    this.$button.html(this.label_playing);
   };
   MainView.prototype.onend = function() {
     this.playing = false;
     this.paused = true;
-    this.$button.attr('value', this.label_stopped);
+    this.$button.html(this.label_stopped);
   };
   MainView.prototype.play_pause = function(e) {
     e.preventDefault();
     if (this.playing) {
       if (this.paused) {
         this.paused = false;
-        this.$button.attr('value', this.label_playing);
+        this.$button.html(this.label_playing);
         responsiveVoice.resume();
       } else {
         this.paused = true;
-        this.$button.attr('value', this.label_paused);
+        this.$button.html(this.label_paused);
         responsiveVoice.pause();
       }
     } else {