---
title: speechString
framework: avfaudio
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: avfaudio/avspeechutterance/speechstring
---

# speechString

A string that contains the text for speech synthesis.

## Declaration

```swift
var speechString: String { 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

- [attributedSpeechString](avfaudio/avspeechutterance/attributedspeechstring.md)