Text to Speech
Turn any text into natural spoken audio using the voices built into your device. Choose a voice, adjust speed and pitch, and listen with synchronised word highlighting. Works offline and entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
How to Use
- Type or paste the text you want read aloud.
- Pick a voice and language from the list of voices installed on your device.
- Adjust the speed, pitch, and volume to taste.
- Press Play to listen — the current word is highlighted as it is spoken.
- Use Pause and Stop to control playback at any time.
Your device already knows how to talk
Every modern operating system ships with text-to-speech voices — the ones that power screen readers, voice assistants, and accessibility features. This tool is a friendly front end to them. Through the browser’s standard Web Speech API, it hands your text to those built-in voices and plays the result through your speakers, with the word currently being spoken highlighted so you can follow along. Because the synthesis happens locally, it generally works offline and your text stays on your device. The selection of voices you see comes straight from your system, so it differs between Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS — and you can install extra languages and higher-quality voices in your operating system’s settings, after which they appear in the list here.
More useful than it first sounds
The most underrated use is proofreading. Reading your own writing silently, your brain fills in what it expects to see and glides over mistakes; hearing it spoken at a steady pace exposes clumsy sentences, repeated words, and missing punctuation immediately. It is also a genuine accessibility aid — for tired eyes, dyslexia, or anyone who simply absorbs information better by ear, turning an article or a set of notes into speech changes how usable that text is. Language learners use it to hear correct pronunciation by selecting a voice in the target language, and it makes effortless hands-free listening possible: paste in something long and listen while you cook, walk, or rest your eyes. The speed and pitch controls matter here — slowing a voice down helps comprehension and learning, while speeding it up lets you power through familiar material.
About this tool
Type your text, choose a voice, set the speed, pitch, and volume, and press Play — with pause, resume, and live word highlighting. It runs entirely in your browser using your device’s own voices, so nothing is uploaded. To analyse the spoken audio visually, try the Audio Spectrum Analyzer, or prepare your text first with the Character Counter.
About the Text to Speech
Text to Speech is a quick, free tool for image, audio and file tasks. It works in your browser and keeps everything on your device. Turn any text into natural spoken audio using the voices built into your device. Choose a voice, adjust speed and pitch, and listen with synchronised word highlighting. Works offline and entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
How it works
Pick your options and the tool makes the result right away. Do not like it? Make another one — you can do this as many times as you want. When it looks right, copy it into your own project. Everything is made on your device, so it is yours alone.
Want the deeper story? The Knowledge Base explains the ideas behind the tools in more detail.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do the voices come from?
They are the speech voices already installed on your computer or phone — the same ones your operating system and screen reader use. This tool simply asks the browser, through the standard Web Speech API, to speak your text with the voice you choose. Because the voices are local, the available list (and their quality) depends on your device and browser; Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS each ship their own set, and you can usually add more in your system settings.
Does this work offline or send my text anywhere?
For most built-in voices it works completely offline and your text never leaves the device — synthesis happens locally. A few browsers offer extra “online” or “natural” voices that fetch audio from the vendor’s servers; if privacy matters, stick to the voices marked local. Either way, this site itself never receives or stores your text.
Can I download the audio as an MP3?
Not directly. The Web Speech API plays audio through your speakers but, for security reasons, does not expose a recordable file in most browsers, so there is no reliable in-browser download. To capture it you would record your system audio with a separate tool. The playback here, including pause and resume, is fully featured.
Why does no sound play or the voice list look empty?
Two common causes: some browsers load the voice list a moment after the page opens, so wait a second or click into the page first; and browsers require a user action (clicking Play) before they allow audio, which this tool respects. If it is still silent, check your system volume and that your browser supports the Web Speech API — Chrome, Edge, and Safari do.
How do I use the Text to Speech?
Simply pick your options and read the result, which refreshes the instant you change something. There is nothing to submit and nothing to wait for.
Does it cost anything or need an account?
No. The tool is completely free, there is no account to create, and it keeps working offline after the page first loads.
Is anything I type uploaded?
No. The tool works entirely on your device, so the values you enter never leave your browser.
Common Use Cases
Proofreading by ear
Hearing your writing read aloud catches awkward phrasing and typos the eye skips.
Accessibility
Read articles, notes, or instructions aloud for anyone who finds listening easier than reading.
Learning pronunciation
Pick a language voice to hear how words and sentences should sound.
Hands-free listening
Turn notes or an article into narration to listen while doing something else.
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