AI Text-to-Speech

Enter your text and an AI voice reads it aloud - natural, not robotic.

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Text to Speech — Have Your Writing Read Aloud

Paste in whatever you want spoken, choose a voice, and listen. This tool works as a text reader when you would rather hear something than read it, and as a text to voice converter when you want to make text into audio you can keep — a narration track, a voiceover, or an MP3 to play back later. The voices are neural AI voices rather than the flat robotic speech people remember from older software, so sentences carry ordinary rhythm and emphasis. No sign-up and no watermarks.

How to Convert Text to Speech

  1. Type or paste your text into the box (up to 5,000 characters).
  2. Choose a language and a voice, then click Generate Preview to hear how it sounds.
  3. Click Proceed to Download to save the whole thing as an MP3.

Voices and Languages

Eight options across seven languages: English (US), English (UK), Spanish, French, Italian, Hindi, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. Each has a male and a female voice, with one exception: French currently has a single voice, so the male/female setting makes no difference there. The two English options are genuinely different accents rather than the same voice relabelled, which matters if you are producing something for a particular audience.

When You Might Need This

  • Narration or a voiceover for a video, slideshow or presentation
  • Listening to an article, a chapter or your notes while doing something else
  • Proofreading by ear — hearing your own writing read back catches clumsy sentences your eye skims over
  • Hearing how a word or phrase should sound when you are learning a language
  • Making written material usable by someone who finds reading difficult
  • An announcement, greeting or voice prompt without recording yourself
  • Practising a speech by listening to it at the length it will actually take

Features

  • Natural neural voices – far beyond robotic text-to-speech
  • Male and female voices – in every language except French
  • Seven languages, eight accents – including separate US and UK English
  • Preview before you commit – check the voice, then generate the full audio
  • MP3 download – a compact file that plays anywhere
  • Up to 5,000 characters – roughly 800 words, or about six minutes of speech

Frequently Asked Questions

Paste the text into the box, pick a language and voice, and press Generate Preview to hear it. When you are happy with the voice, Proceed to Download renders the whole text and gives you an MP3. There is nothing to install and no account to make, and the file is yours to keep — so you can play it back later without returning to this page.

That is deliberate. The preview renders just the opening sentence, or around the first 120 characters, so you get it back in a second or two instead of waiting for the whole thing. It exists to let you judge the voice, not to play the full text. The complete audio is generated when you click Proceed to Download — so if the preview stops early, nothing is wrong and nothing has been cut from your download.

Yes, for every language except one. English (US), English (UK), Spanish, Italian, Hindi, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese each have a male and a female voice. French currently has only a single voice, so switching that setting will not change how the French audio sounds.

English (US), English (UK), Spanish, French, Italian, Hindi, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. US and UK English are separate voices with genuinely different accents, not the same recording relabelled. Pick the language and voice from the dropdowns before generating the audio — the tool does not detect the language of your text, so a mismatch between the two will produce odd pronunciation.

Up to 5,000 characters in one go, which is roughly 800 words or about six minutes of speech. For anything longer, split it into sections and convert them one at a time — that also gives you separate files, which is usually easier to work with when editing a video than one long track.

Yes. The MP3 is yours to use, with no watermark spoken over it and no attribution required. It is worth checking the rules of whichever platform you are publishing to, since some ask creators to disclose synthetic voices, but nothing on our side restricts what you do with the file.

Much less than you might expect. These are neural voices, so they carry the rhythm and emphasis of ordinary speech rather than reading word by word at a flat pitch. Long sentences without punctuation are where any text-to-speech struggles most — adding commas and full stops where you would naturally pause makes a bigger difference to the result than changing the voice does.

It downloads as an MP3, which plays on essentially any device or editing program. The tool is free with no sign-up, no character quota to buy and no watermark added to the audio.

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