Text To Speech
Have your sentence read aloud in several languages: pick a voice and speed, download the spoken WAV, and it plays in any browser or phone.
Fill in the values and calculate
The form sends itself back to this page — results print below, computed on the server.
No results yet: fill the form above and press Calculate.
About Text To Speech
The synthesizer is espeak-ng running on the server: pick a voice and a pace, and the page writes you a WAV file you can download and play anywhere.
Nothing is uploaded to a third-party service and nothing is cached: each run produces a fresh file on the server and hands it straight back to you.
Because this is a synthesizer rather than a recording, pronunciation is mechanical: numbers and common abbreviations are expanded, but very unusual words can sound flat.
Questions about Text To Speech
Do I need to install anything?
No. The browser plays the WAV the page hands back; the synthesis itself happens server-side.
Is the speech cached between visits?
No. Every request generates a new file; the server cleans up the outputs it has served.
Does it read numbers aloud?
Yes, espeak-ng expands common numbers and abbreviations in the selected language, so 1,205 is read as a number.
Why is my language not listed?
Only the voices this site exposes appear here; the underlying engine knows many more, but the list is kept to the ones worth hearing.
Bookmark and homescreen
- Press Ctrl+B now (or Cmd+B on macOS) to bookmark this page in your browser.
- Drag this link to your bookmarks bar and it will always open this tool: Text To Speech.
- On a phone: open in Chrome/Safari and use "Add to Home Screen" — the site ships a homescreen icon and manifest, so it installs like an app.
- Two addresses work:
https://useful-utilities.com/text-to-speech/andtext-to-speech.useful-utilities.com. Copy whichever you prefer.