diff --git a/packages/api/src/routers/svc/text_to_speech.ts b/packages/api/src/routers/svc/text_to_speech.ts
index f80f138ba..8f597c652 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/routers/svc/text_to_speech.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/routers/svc/text_to_speech.ts
@@ -36,17 +36,17 @@ export function speechServiceRouter() {
     }
 
     try {
-      const data: { userId: string; type: string; id: string } =
+      const data: { userId: string; type: string; id: string; state: string } =
         JSON.parse(msgStr)
-      const { userId, type, id } = data
+      const { userId, type, id, state } = data
       if (!userId || !type || !id) {
         logger.info('Invalid data')
         return res.status(400).send('Bad Request')
       }
 
-      if (type.toUpperCase() !== 'PAGE') {
-        logger.info('Not a page')
-        return res.status(200).send('Not a page')
+      if (type.toUpperCase() !== 'PAGE' || state !== 'SUCCEEDED') {
+        logger.info('Not a page or not succeeded')
+        return res.status(200).send('Not a page or not succeeded')
       }
 
       const page = await getPageById(id)
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ export function speechServiceRouter() {
           user: { id: userId },
           elasticPageId: id,
           state: SpeechState.INITIALIZED,
+          voice: 'en-US-JennyNeural',
         })
         await synthesize(page, speech)
         logger.info('page synthesized')
diff --git a/packages/api/src/services/speech.ts b/packages/api/src/services/speech.ts
index 19a2df42f..8d390c374 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/services/speech.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/services/speech.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { getRepository } from '../entity/utils'
 import { Speech, SpeechState } from '../entity/speech'
 import { searchPages } from '../elastic/pages'
-import { Page } from '../elastic/types'
+import { Page, PageType } from '../elastic/types'
 import { SortBy, SortOrder } from '../utils/search'
 import { synthesizeTextToSpeech } from '../utils/textToSpeech'
 
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ export const shouldSynthesize = async (
   userId: string,
   page: Page
 ): Promise<boolean> => {
+  if (page.pageType === PageType.File || !page.content) {
+    // we don't synthesize files for now
+    return false
+  }
+
   if (process.env.TEXT_TO_SPEECH_BETA_TEST) {
     return true
   }
@@ -52,7 +57,12 @@ export const shouldSynthesize = async (
 
 export const synthesize = async (page: Page, speech: Speech): Promise<void> => {
   try {
-    console.log('synthesizing', speech.id)
+    if (page.pageType === PageType.File || !page.content) {
+      // we don't synthesize files for now
+      return
+    }
+
+    console.log('Start synthesizing', { pageId: page.id, speechId: speech.id })
     const startTime = Date.now()
     const speechOutput = await synthesizeTextToSpeech({
       id: speech.id,