Language of SpeechSynthesis?

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Michael Bought asked 2016-11-06 23:31:23 UTC

How can I specify the language?... i tried..

SpeechSynthesis1.Language = "es-ES"

But doesn't work

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Luca answered 2016-11-07 01:50:08 UTC

I think you have to change the voice too. The lang property doesn't seem to do anything. Use this voice "Google español". The string must match exactly the voice installed by chrome.

See:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesisUtterance/lang

https://codepen.io/matt-west/pen/wGzuJ