Text to Speech Generator

What it does

The Text to Speech Generator reads any text aloud using your browser's built-in speech synthesis engine (the Web Speech API) — no upload, no account, no waiting on a server. Paste or type up to 5,000 characters, pick a voice, and press Play. As the browser speaks, the current word is highlighted live in the text below so you can follow along — handy for proofreading, language practice, or just listening back to something you wrote.

How to use it

1. Paste or type your text into the input box.
2. Open Voice Settings and choose a voice. Voices are grouped by language and pulled straight from your operating system and browser, so the exact list varies by device — Windows, macOS, iOS and Android all ship different voice packs, and Chrome/Edge often add several more.
3. Adjust Speed, Pitch and Volume to taste.
4. Press Play. Use Pause/Resume to stop and continue, or Stop to cancel entirely.
5. Watch the highlighted word track the speech in real time.

Settings

• Voice — every voice your browser currently exposes via speechSynthesis.getVoices(), grouped by language. Some browsers populate this list asynchronously after the page loads (via the voiceschanged event) rather than immediately, so the list may briefly show only a default voice before filling in.
• Speed — 0.5× (slower) to 2× (faster) playback rate.
• Pitch — 0.5 (lower) to 2 (higher).
• Volume — 0 (silent) to 1 (full).

Privacy and voice types

This tool runs entirely in your browser — your text is handed directly to the operating system's speech engine and never uploaded anywhere. Most default voices are on-device (processed locally, no network involved). A few browsers also list additional network-based voices (often labeled "Enhanced" or similar); the tool marks these separately using the voice's localService flag so you always know whether a given voice speaks locally or reaches out over the network before playing.

There's no audio-file download here. Turning synthesized speech into a downloadable audio file requires a paid text-to-speech API (the kind that happens server-side); this tool sticks to a fast, free, private read-aloud experience instead.

Why can't I download the audio?

Some tools work around this by asking you to screen-share your own browser tab's audio back to itself to "record" it — a confusing permission prompt that's unreliable across browsers. We'd rather give you a clean, honest read-aloud tool than a broken download button.

The playback stopped partway through a long text

Some browsers (notably Chrome) can stop firing speech events after roughly 15 seconds of continuous playback on very long input, which can make Pause or Stop seem unresponsive on lengthy passages. If that happens, press Stop and Play again — shorter chunks of text are the most reliable.

Related tools

Check text length before you convert it with the Word Counter, or make long passages easier to skim first with the Bionic Reading Converter.