Listening instead of reading
Text to speech helps with proofreading (you hear mistakes your eyes skip), learning a language, resting tired eyes, studying while commuting and making text accessible for people with dyslexia or low vision. This tool uses the Web Speech API built into modern browsers, which hands your text to the speech voices installed on your device: Microsoft voices on Windows, Siri-style voices on Apple devices, Google voices on Android and Chrome. The page itself never uploads your text.
Choosing a voice
The voice list shows every voice your browser offers with its language code, such as en-GB, es-ES, hi-IN or ar-SA. Pick a voice in the same language as your text; an English voice reading Urdu or French will mispronounce almost everything. Voices marked “online” are provided by the browser maker's cloud service, so the browser may send the text to that company to generate the audio; choose a voice without the label if you need everything to stay on your device. Windows and macOS let you download more natural voices in their speech or accessibility settings, and they then appear here.
Speed, pitch and volume
Speed ranges from half to double normal; 1.2–1.5× is popular for long articles once you are used to it. Pitch makes the voice higher or lower without changing speed. Not every voice supports every setting, and some ignore pitch.
Long texts and highlighting
Some speech engines stop after about fifteen seconds of continuous speech. To avoid that, the tool splits long text at sentence endings and queues the pieces, so you can paste a whole article. Where the voice reports word boundaries, the word being spoken is highlighted under the controls.
Saving audio
Browsers do not let web pages capture the output of system voices, so this tool cannot download an MP3. To keep a recording, use your operating system's screen or audio recorder while it plays.