Setting SpeechSynthesisUtterance Voice by Name - text-to-speech

Question

I need to set the SpeechSynthesisUtterance voice by it's name, such as "Microsoft Zira Desktop - English (United States)".
I have code that will let the user select their desired 'voice' via a dropdown of available voices. That voice name is then saved in a PHP session variable (and cookie) in $_SESSION[voicesettings][voice] so that the user will get their desired voice the next visit.
Here is an extract of the code used:
function loadVoices() {
// Fetch the available voices.
var voices = speechSynthesis.getVoices();
var voiceselected = "<?php echo $_SESSION[voicesettings][voice]?>";
// Loop through each of the voices.
voices.forEach(function(voice, i) {
// Create a new option element.
var option = document.createElement('option');
// Set the options value and text.
option.value = voice.name;
option.innerHTML = voice.name;
if (voice.name === voiceselected){
option.selected = true;
}
// Add the option to the voice selector.
voiceSelect.appendChild(option);
});
}
// Execute loadVoices.
loadVoices();
// Chrome loads voices asynchronously.
window.speechSynthesis.onvoiceschanged = function(e) {
loadVoices();
};
This part of the code works, as I can set (and save/recall) the user-selected voice name into the Session variable (code not shown).
Now I need to use those saved values (the voice) in another page that creates the SpeechSynthesisUtterance object. But having trouble setting the 'voice' of that object.
So far:
var speechMessage = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(msg);
speechMessage.rate = <?php echo $rate;?>;
speechMessage.pitch = <?php echo $pitch;?>;
speechMessage.volume = <?php echo $volume;?>;
How do I set the `speechMessage.voice by it's name, such as "Microsoft Zira Desktop - English (United States)" ?

Answer 1

You can find voice by name with code below
var voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices();
var foundVoices = voices.filter(function(voice)
{
return voice.name == 'Microsoft Zira Desktop - English (United States)';
});
if(foundVoices.length === 1){
speechMessage.voice = foundVoices[0];
}