---
title: AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest
framework: avfaudio
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisproviderrequest
---

# AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest

An object that represents the text to synthesize and the voice to use.

## Declaration

```swift
class AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest
```

## Topics

### Creating a request

- [init(ssmlRepresentation:voice:)](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisproviderrequest/init(ssmlrepresentation:voice:)-7elh.md)

### Inspecting a request

- [ssmlRepresentation](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisproviderrequest/ssmlrepresentation.md)
- [voice](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisproviderrequest/voice.md)
- [AVSpeechSynthesisProviderVoice](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisprovidervoice.md)

### Initializers

- [init(SSMLRepresentation:voice:)](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisproviderrequest/init(ssmlrepresentation:voice:)-5v77t.md)
- [init(coder:)](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisproviderrequest/init(coder:).md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSSecureCoding](foundation/nssecurecoding.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Rendering speech

- [synthesizeSpeechRequest(_:)](avfaudio/avspeechsynthesisprovideraudiounit/synthesizespeechrequest(_:).md)