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# AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest

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

```
class AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest
```

## Topics

### Creating a request

[`init(ssmlRepresentation:voice:)`](/documentation/AVFAudio/AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest/init(ssmlRepresentation:voice:)-7elh)

Creates a request with a voice and a description.

### Inspecting a request

[`ssmlRepresentation`](/documentation/AVFAudio/AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest/ssmlRepresentation)

The description of the text to synthesize.

[`voice`](/documentation/AVFAudio/AVSpeechSynthesisProviderRequest/voice)

The voice to use in the speech request.

[`AVSpeechSynthesisProviderVoice`](/documentation/AVFAudio/AVSpeechSynthesisProviderVoice)

An object that represents a voice that an audio unit provides to its host.


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