Text to Speech
Listen to your text with the voices available in this browser. A voice may synthesize speech on this device or use an online service that receives the text; available voices and offline use depend on the selected voice and browser.
Text workspace
Read typed text aloud with the voices supplied by your current browser.
Method and limits
Choose language and voice, adjust rate, pitch and volume, then Speak. Pause resumes the same reading; Stop clears its queue and progress. Samples contain English, French or Latin text. Progress depends on browser boundary events.
Available voices, quality, languages and offline operation depend on the browser and operating system. Some voices use online services; this tool adds no provider. There is no MP3 export. If no voice loads, playback stays unavailable.
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Bonjour le monde is sent unchanged to the selected voice with your rate, pitch and volume.
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About Text to Speech
Read typed text aloud with the voices supplied by your current browser.
Bonjour le monde is sent unchanged to the selected voice with your rate, pitch and volume.
Available voices, quality, languages and offline operation depend on the browser and operating system. Some voices use online services; this tool adds no provider. There is no MP3 export. If no voice loads, playback stays unavailable.
Use Cases
How to use
Choose language and voice, adjust rate, pitch and volume, then Speak. Pause resumes the same reading; Stop clears its queue and progress. Samples contain English, French or Latin text. Progress depends on browser boundary events.
Pro Tips
- Available voices, quality, languages and offline operation depend on the browser and operating system. Some voices use online services; this tool adds no provider. There is no MP3 export. If no voice loads, playback stays unavailable.
Troubleshooting
The page says no speech voices are installed.
The browser supports speech synthesis but the device has none of the voices it needs. On Windows they are added under Time & language, on Android under the text-to-speech settings, and on Linux a package such as speech-dispatcher is usually required. The warning appears after two seconds because voices load asynchronously.
The page says my browser does not support speech synthesis.
Some browsers, and many in-app browsers inside social apps, do not expose the speech API at all. Open the page in a current standalone browser instead. Nothing on this page can add the capability, since it is provided by the browser and not by the site.
The reading stops after a few seconds.
Long passages are cut short by some engines, and the browser stops speech when the tab loses focus or the phone screen locks. Keep the tab in the foreground, and split a very long text into a few paragraphs and read them one at a time.
The progress bar does not move while the voice reads.
The bar is driven by word-boundary events, which not every engine emits. When they are missing the reading is still correct and Pause and Stop still work — only the bar has nothing to advance on. Try another voice if you want the progress indicator.
Changing the language filter reset the voice I had chosen.
Filtering rebuilds the voice list and selects the first entry in it, so any earlier choice is lost by design. Set Filter by language first, then pick the Voice, and keep that order whenever you switch language.
Frequently Asked Questions
Available voices, quality, languages and offline operation depend on the browser and operating system. Some voices use online services; this tool adds no provider. There is no MP3 export. If no voice loads, playback stays unavailable.
Available voices, quality, languages and offline operation depend on the browser and operating system. Some voices use online services; this tool adds no provider. There is no MP3 export. If no voice loads, playback stays unavailable.