How to use text to speech
- Type or paste your text into the box.
- Choose a voice. The list shows the voices available on your device, with their language.
- Adjust the speed and pitch if you like.
- Tap Speak. Use Pause, Resume and Stop while it's reading.
Where the voices come from
This tool uses the speech engine built into your device and browser, so there's nothing to install and nothing is sent to a server. That also means the voices depend on your device:
| Device | Where the voices come from |
|---|---|
| Android | Your text-to-speech engine, usually Speech Services by Google. Add languages in Settings → Accessibility → Text-to-speech |
| iPhone and iPad | The voices in Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content |
| Windows | Microsoft voices installed with Windows, plus online voices in Edge |
| Mac | The system voices in Accessibility settings |
If a language isn't listed, install a voice for it in your device settings and reload the page.
What it's useful for
- Proofreading. Hearing your writing read aloud makes typos, missing words and clumsy sentences easy to spot.
- Listening instead of reading. Paste an article and listen while you do something else.
- Pronunciation. Hear how words sound in another language by choosing a voice for that language.
- Accessibility. Helpful for people with low vision, dyslexia or reading fatigue.
Limits to know
Browsers play speech directly and don't let websites save it as an audio file, so there's no MP3 download. Very long texts may be cut off by some speech engines; if that happens, read them in sections.
For a quick count of how long your text is, use the word counter, which also estimates speaking time.