Text to Speech
Convert any text to natural-sounding speech — choose voice, language, and speed, then listen or download.
What is Text to Speech?
Text-to-speech (TTS) technology converts written text into spoken audio using synthetic voices. Modern TTS has advanced dramatically from the robotic-sounding voices of the past — neural TTS systems produce natural-sounding speech with appropriate intonation, rhythm, and emphasis that closely resembles human narration. TTS is valuable across many contexts: proofreading your own writing (hearing text read back reveals errors that eyes miss), creating voiceovers for videos and presentations without recording your own voice, making content accessible to users with visual impairments or dyslexia, language learning (hearing correct pronunciation), and generating audio content from written material. This tool uses high-quality browser-native and neural TTS voices across multiple languages, with controls for speed, pitch, and voice character.
How to Use Text to Speech
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Enter or Paste Text
Type or paste any text — from a sentence to several paragraphs. The tool supports all languages and special characters.
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Choose Voice Settings
Select voice (male/female, regional accents), language, speaking speed (0.5× to 2×), and pitch. Preview settings with a short sample before generating the full audio.
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Listen or Download
Play the audio directly in your browser or download as an MP3 or WAV file for use in videos, presentations, or as audio content.
Use Cases
Proofreading and Editing
Listening to your own writing read aloud is one of the most effective proofreading techniques. The ears catch errors that eyes habitually miss: repeated words, awkward sentence rhythm, unclear phrasing, and grammatical issues become obvious when heard rather than read. Run any piece of writing through TTS before final submission or publication.
Video and Presentation Voiceovers
Create professional-sounding voiceovers for explainer videos, training materials, and presentations without recording your own voice. Write the script, generate the audio, and synchronise it with your visuals — ideal for technical content creators, educators, and marketers who want consistent professional narration.
Accessibility and Language Learning
TTS makes written content accessible to users with visual impairments, dyslexia, or reading difficulties. For language learners, hearing correct pronunciation of words and sentences in context accelerates acquisition. Use TTS to hear how words in a new language are pronounced, or to consume long-form reading content in audio format during commutes.
Features
Multiple Languages and Voices
Supports 40+ languages with multiple voice options per language — including regional accents (US English, UK English, Australian English) and male/female voice choices.
Speed and Pitch Control
Adjust speaking rate from 0.5× (slow, for clarity) to 2× (fast, for skimming) and pitch from low to high — customise the audio output for your specific use case.
MP3 Download
Download the generated speech as an MP3 file for embedding in videos, presentations, podcasts, or any audio application — no streaming dependency required.
SSML Support
Advanced users can use Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tags to control pauses, emphasis, pronunciation, and prosody — producing more natural-sounding narration for professional applications.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — it's one of the most effective proofreading methods. The brain's pattern-recognition reads what it expects to see rather than what is actually on the page, causing it to miss errors like repeated words (the the), missing words, and incorrect homophones (their/there/they're). Listening forces you to process the text at speech speed, preventing the skimming that causes eyes to miss errors. Professional editors often recommend reading aloud or using TTS as a final proofreading step for any high-stakes document.
It depends on the TTS system. Browser-native TTS (using the Web Speech API) generates audio using the operating system's built-in voices — usage rights depend on your OS/browser. For commercial use (YouTube videos, podcasts, advertising), neural TTS services from providers like Google Cloud, Amazon Polly, Microsoft Azure, or ElevenLabs require a paid API subscription and their terms permit commercial use at various pricing tiers. Always check the specific service's terms before using generated audio commercially.
This tool uses browser-native TTS via the Web Speech API, which supports the voices installed on your operating system and browser. Most modern systems include English (multiple accents), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and more. The exact voices available vary by OS, browser, and installed language packs. For a broader range of neural voices with higher quality, cloud TTS services offer 100+ languages and voices.
SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) is an XML-based markup language that gives you fine-grained control over TTS output. With SSML you can: add pauses (<break time="1s"/>), emphasise words (<emphasis level="strong">), specify pronunciation (<phoneme>), adjust speaking rate and pitch for sections, spell out acronyms or numbers in specific ways, and insert audio files. SSML is essential for professional TTS applications where default prosody sounds unnatural — particularly for technical content, product names, or content requiring dramatic variation in pace and emphasis.
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