---
title: postUtteranceDelay
framework: avfaudio
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfaudio/avspeechutterance/postutterancedelay
---

# postUtteranceDelay

The amount of time the speech synthesizer pauses after speaking an utterance before handling the next utterance in the queue.

## Declaration

```swift
var postUtteranceDelay: TimeInterval { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion When multiple utterances exist in the queue, the speech synthesizer pauses a minimum amount of time equal to the sum of the current utterance’s postUtteranceDelay and the next utterance’s preUtteranceDelay.

## See Also

### Configuring utterance timing

- [rate](avfaudio/avspeechutterance/rate.md)
- [AVSpeechUtteranceMinimumSpeechRate](avfaudio/avspeechutteranceminimumspeechrate.md)
- [AVSpeechUtteranceMaximumSpeechRate](avfaudio/avspeechutterancemaximumspeechrate.md)
- [AVSpeechUtteranceDefaultSpeechRate](avfaudio/avspeechutterancedefaultspeechrate.md)
- [preUtteranceDelay](avfaudio/avspeechutterance/preutterancedelay.md)