Text to Speech

Type or paste text and have your device read it aloud, choosing among the voices your system provides and adjusting the speaking rate and the pitch. It is useful for proofreading — a sentence that reads fine on the page often sounds wrong when spoken, and that is the cheapest way to catch a missing word — as well as for listening to an article while doing something else. This uses the speech engine built into your browser and operating system, not a service of ours: nothing you type is sent to us (if you pick one of the online voices some browsers list, the browser itself sends the text to that voice's provider — see the FAQ), and the available voices differ from machine to machine, so a voice you choose here may not exist on someone else's computer. Voices are sometimes loaded a moment after the page, so the list can start empty and fill in.