How to use Text to speech
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Paste your text
Type or paste an article, an essay draft or a script. It is saved in this browser so it's still there next time.
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Pick a voice
Search the voices your device offers by name or language and press the speaker icon to hear a short preview.
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Press Play and listen
The sentence being read is highlighted. Click any sentence to jump there, or pause and resume from the same word.
Limits and Pro
No length limit and no sign-up: long texts are read in pieces of up to 220 characters, at 0.5× to 2× speed. Voices and languages are the ones your device provides.
About Text to speech
Text to speech turns written text into spoken audio using the speech engine that already ships with your operating system or browser: Microsoft's natural voices on Windows and Edge, Apple's voices on Mac, iPhone and iPad, Google's voices in Chrome and on Android. Which voices you see depends on your device, and many systems offer dozens of languages and accents.
Long texts are spoken one sentence at a time. That avoids the well-known problem where Chrome falls silent after about fifteen seconds of continuous speech, and it lets the page highlight the sentence — and, where the voice reports it, the exact word — being read. Click a sentence to start from there. Changing the speed or voice mid-way continues from the current word, so you can find a comfortable pace without starting over.
Typical uses are proofreading by ear, which catches missing words and clumsy phrasing that the eye skips; listening to long articles while doing something else; rehearsing a speech; and giving reading support to people with dyslexia or low vision.
What it can't do: save the speech as an MP3 or WAV. Browsers send these voices directly to your speakers and never hand the audio to the web page, so there is nothing to download. Pronunciation of names and abbreviations is decided by the voice and can't be customised here.
Privacy
Speech is produced by your device's own text-to-speech engine through the browser's Web Speech API; this page sends your text nowhere. Your draft and settings are kept in this browser's local storage until you clear them. Note that some system voices marked “online” (for example Google or Microsoft Online voices) are synthesised by that vendor's service, as with any app using them.
Features
Every voice on your device
Grouped by language, searchable, with a one-click preview.
Follow along
The current sentence and word are highlighted while the text is read.
Speed, pitch and volume
From 0.5× to 2× speed; changes apply mid-sentence without starting over.
No upload, no account
Your text stays in this browser and is remembered for next time.