Text to Speech
Have any text read aloud with your device's own voices. Adjust speed, pitch and volume — nothing is uploaded to a server.
How to use it
- Paste your text and press Play.
- Pick a voice — the list comes from your operating system, so it differs by device.
- Slow the speed down for proofreading; your ear catches mistakes your eye skips.
Reads any text aloud using your device's own installed voices via the browser's speech synthesis API, with adjustable speed, pitch and volume. Nothing is uploaded to convert the speech — the synthesis happens on-device.
Proofreading by ear
Reading your own writing silently, your eye tends to skip over errors because you already know what the sentence is supposed to say. Hearing it read aloud by a voice that has no such expectation exposes awkward phrasing, missing words, and typos that silent proofreading reliably misses — a genuinely useful trick for anything from an email to a longer document before it goes out.
Accessibility use
Text-to-speech is also a real accessibility tool — for anyone with a reading difficulty, low vision, or who simply retains spoken information better than written text, converting any pasted text into audio removes a barrier that exists in plain written content.
Slowing down for comprehension or language learning
Dropping the playback speed helps with dense or technical text where each sentence needs more processing time, and it's also a practical way to hear correct pronunciation while learning a language, at a pace that's easier to follow than natural speed.
Questions people ask
Why do I have different voices to someone else?
Voices are installed by your operating system and browser, not by this page. Windows, macOS, Android and iOS each ship a different set, and you can add more in your system settings.
Can I download the audio?
Browsers do not expose the synthesised audio stream to web pages, so no. To capture it you would need to record your system audio with a separate app.
Last updated 17 August 2026