diff --git a/docs/useSpeech.md b/docs/useSpeech.md
index f94628fe..fa77e699 100644
--- a/docs/useSpeech.md
+++ b/docs/useSpeech.md
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ React UI hook that synthesizes human voice that speaks a given string.
 ```jsx
 import {useSpeech} from 'react-use';
 
+const voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices();
+
 const Demo = () => {
-  const state = useSpeech('Hello world!');
+  const state = useSpeech('Hello world!', { rate: 0.8, pitch: 0.5, voice: voices[0] });
 
   return (
     <pre>
diff --git a/src/__stories__/useSpeech.story.tsx b/src/__stories__/useSpeech.story.tsx
index 2d2f1e80..6dd02e05 100644
--- a/src/__stories__/useSpeech.story.tsx
+++ b/src/__stories__/useSpeech.story.tsx
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import { useSpeech } from '..';
 import ShowDocs from './util/ShowDocs';
 
+const voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices();
+
 const Demo = () => {
-  const state = useSpeech('Hello world!');
+  const state = useSpeech('Hello world!', { rate: 0.8, pitch: 0.5, voice: voices[0] });
 
   return <pre>{JSON.stringify(state, null, 2)}</pre>;
 };
diff --git a/src/useSpeech.ts b/src/useSpeech.ts
index c04c5d43..05b980af 100644
--- a/src/useSpeech.ts
+++ b/src/useSpeech.ts
@@ -4,22 +4,30 @@ import useSetState from './useSetState';
 
 export interface SpeechState {
   isPlaying: boolean;
+  lang: string;
+  voice: SpeechSynthesisVoice;
   rate: number;
+  pitch: number;
   volume: number;
 }
 
 export interface SpeechOptions {
-  lang?: any;
-  pitch?: number;
+  lang?: string;
+  voice?: SpeechSynthesisVoice;
   rate?: number;
-  voice?: any;
+  pitch?: number;
   volume?: number;
 }
 
+const voices = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices();
+
 const useSpeech = (text: string, opts: SpeechOptions = {}): SpeechState => {
   const [state, setState] = useSetState<SpeechState>({
     isPlaying: false,
+    lang: opts.lang || 'default',
+    voice: opts.voice || voices[0],
     rate: opts.rate || 1,
+    pitch: opts.pitch || 1,
     volume: opts.volume || 1,
   });
 
@@ -27,7 +35,10 @@ const useSpeech = (text: string, opts: SpeechOptions = {}): SpeechState => {
 
   useMount(() => {
     const utterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(text);
+    opts.lang && (utterance.lang = opts.lang);
+    opts.voice && (utterance.voice = opts.voice);
     utterance.rate = opts.rate || 1;
+    utterance.pitch = opts.pitch || 1;
     utterance.volume = opts.volume || 1;
     utterance.onstart = () => setState({ isPlaying: true });
     utterance.onresume = () => setState({ isPlaying: true });