diff --git a/packages/api/src/routers/article_router.ts b/packages/api/src/routers/article_router.ts
index e1415b6d4..00c5d94ab 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/routers/article_router.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/routers/article_router.ts
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ export function articleRouter() {
         },
       })
 
-      if (outputFormat === 'speech-file') {
+      if (outputFormat === 'speech') {
         const page = await getPageById(articleId)
         if (!page) {
           return res.status(404).send('Page not found')
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ export function articleRouter() {
           secondaryVoice: secondaryVoice,
           language: page.language,
         })
-        return res.send(speechFile)
+        return res.send({ ...speechFile, pageId: articleId })
       }
 
       const existingSpeech = await getRepository(Speech).findOne({
diff --git a/packages/api/src/textToSpeech.d.ts b/packages/api/src/textToSpeech.d.ts
index 051b9be8f..f27ff5aec 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/textToSpeech.d.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/textToSpeech.d.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ declare module '@omnivore/text-to-speech-handler' {
 
   export interface SpeechFile {
     wordCount: number
-    averageWPM: number
     language: string
     defaultVoice: string
     utterances: Utterance[]
diff --git a/packages/text-to-speech/src/htmlToSsml.ts b/packages/text-to-speech/src/htmlToSsml.ts
index 9cf45a533..4aff78796 100644
--- a/packages/text-to-speech/src/htmlToSsml.ts
+++ b/packages/text-to-speech/src/htmlToSsml.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ export interface Utterance {
 
 export interface SpeechFile {
   wordCount: number
-  averageWPM: number
   language: string
   defaultVoice: string
   utterances: Utterance[]
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ export type SSMLOptions = {
   language?: string
 }
 
-const WORDS_PER_MINUTE = 200
 const DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 'en-US'
 const DEFAULT_VOICE = 'en-US-JennyNeural'
 const DEFAULT_RATE = 1.25
@@ -307,7 +305,6 @@ export const htmlToSpeechFile = (
 
   return {
     wordCount: wordOffset,
-    averageWPM: WORDS_PER_MINUTE,
     language: options.language || DEFAULT_LANGUAGE,
     defaultVoice: options.primaryVoice || DEFAULT_VOICE,
     utterances,