182 · Audio Tools

Text to Speech

Listen to articles, proofread your writing by ear, or practise pronunciation.

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How to use the text to speech

  1. Type or paste text.
  2. Pick a voice, speed and pitch.
  3. Select Speak.

About the voices

The voices come from your operating system and browser, so the list differs between devices. Edge and Chrome add natural-sounding online voices (marked “online”); with those, the browser sends the text to its maker to synthesise it. Voices without that label run entirely on your device.

Browsers don’t allow saving speech from these voices as an audio file, so this tool reads aloud only.

Examples

Article text, 1.3× speed

Read aloud a little faster than normal

Spanish voice + Spanish text

Natural Spanish pronunciation

Questions

Can I download the audio as MP3?

Not with browser voices: browsers only let pages play them, not record them. To create an audio file, record yourself reading with the <a href="/tools/online-voice-recorder/">Online Voice Recorder</a>.