web speech api - speech synthesis .lang property not working

Question

im trying to use web speech api to transcript a word in Portuguese, i set the property to \'pt-BR\' ( unfortunately Portuguese - european is not supported) but, always replies i

Answer 1

Seems like Chrome broke recently. I had code working, now its not.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=582455

As a work-around, you can set the .voice

voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices()

var utterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance("lo que practico");

utterance.voice = voices[3];
utterance.lang = voices[3].lang;

window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);

Perhaps the API changed as before when a female/male voice were both available it was not possible to pick one in particular. I still set lang for other browsers (or older chromes).