---
title: attributedSpeechString
framework: avfaudio
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfaudio/avspeechutterance/attributedspeechstring
---

# attributedSpeechString

An attributed string that contains the text for speech synthesis.

## Declaration

```swift
var attributedSpeechString: NSAttributedString { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion You can’t change an utterance’s text after initializaiton. If you want the speech synthesizer to speak different text, create a new utterance.

## See Also

### Inspecting utterance text

- [speechString](avfaudio/avspeechutterance/speechstring.md)