Can I download the audio as an MP3 or WAV?

No, and that is a hard limit of the Web Speech API itself, not a missing feature. The browser's SpeechSynthesis interface streams audio directly to your speakers and exposes no recording or file-export hook. If you need a downloadable audio file, you need a cloud TTS service (Google, Amazon Polly, ElevenLabs) that synthesizes server-side — but those upload your text. This tool stays 100% local, so playback only. To capture it anyway, use your OS's screen/audio recorder while it plays.

Why is the voice list different on my phone, my Mac, and my colleague's PC?

Because the voices come from your operating system, not from us. macOS ships Siri voices, Windows ships its own set, Android and iOS each bundle different ones, and the exact list also depends on which language packs you have installed. That is why a voice you love on one device may simply not exist on another. The tool groups every voice your OS exposes by language so you can find the closest match.

Which languages are supported?

Whatever your operating system has installed. Most desktops ship English plus a handful of common languages out of the box; you can add more in your OS language/voice settings (e.g. macOS System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content, or Windows Settings → Time & Language → Speech). The dropdown shows the language tag next to each voice, like en-US or zh-CN, so you always know what you're getting.

Does it work offline?

The tool page itself is static and works offline once loaded. Whether speech works offline depends on the specific voice: most OS-bundled voices are fully local and speak with no connection, but some 'enhanced' or 'natural' voices (certain Microsoft and Apple ones) stream from the cloud and go silent offline. If a voice stops working without internet, switch to a standard system voice.

My text just stops partway through — why?

Chrome's speech engine has a long-standing quirk where it silently drops utterances longer than a few hundred characters and never fires the 'finished' event. This tool works around it by splitting your text into sentence-sized chunks and queuing them, so even a long article plays start to finish. If you still see a cut-off, try a shorter passage or a different voice.

Proofread by ear instead of by eye

Your eyes skim what you meant to write, not what you actually wrote — that is why typos survive five read-throughs. Workflow: paste your draft, pick a clear voice, set speed to 1.0x, press Play, and follow along in your editor. Doubled words ("the the"), dropped articles, and a sentence that runs on for forty words all jump out the instant a voice tries to say them. I catch two or three errors per page this way that silent reading missed.

Make a long article accessible while you do something else

You have a 2,000-word piece open but you need to make lunch. Paste it in, choose a natural-sounding voice, push speed to 1.3x, and let it read while you chop vegetables. The tool chunks the text by sentence so it plays the whole thing without the Chrome cut-off bug, and you can pause the moment a section needs your full attention and resume after.

Drill foreign-language pronunciation

Learning Spanish or Mandarin? Paste a sentence, switch the voice dropdown to an es-ES or zh-CN voice, drop the speed to 0.7x, and listen to how a native-locale voice stresses each word. Repeat the line out loud after it. Bump the speed back to 1.0x once you can keep up. The language tag next to each voice (en-US, fr-FR, ja-JP) tells you exactly which locale you're hearing.

Rehearse a script or narration before you record

Writing voice-over for a video or a podcast intro? Paste the script, set a voice close to the tone you want, and play it at 1.0x. Hearing it out loud exposes tongue-twisters, awkward breath points, and lines that are three words too long — far faster than reading it in your head. Edit, replay, repeat until it flows, then record the human version.

Rest your eyes during a long reading session

After hours of screen time, reading one more report is painful. Paste it here, pick a comfortable voice and a slow-ish 0.9x speed, lean back, and listen with your eyes closed. Because nothing is uploaded, you can do this with an internal document you would never paste into a cloud TTS service.

Text to Speech — Read Any Text Aloud in Your Browser

Read any text aloud with your browser's built-in voices — pick voice, speed, pitch, volume — 100% local, nothing uploaded

Runs locally
Category Text
Best for Removing repetitive cleanup work from everyday writing and operations.

Speech synthesis is not available

Your browser does not expose the Web Speech API (window.speechSynthesis). Try the latest Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox on desktop or mobile. Everything here runs locally — there is no server fallback because nothing is ever uploaded.

What this tool does

A free text-to-speech reader that runs entirely in your browser using the Web Speech API (SpeechSynthesis) — the same voice engine your operating system already ships. Paste an article, a paragraph you wrote, a study sheet, or a script, then press Play to hear it read aloud. You get full control: choose any voice your OS exposes (grouped by language), drag the speed slider from 0.5x to 2x, set pitch and volume, and pause, resume or stop at any time. Long passages are automatically split into sentence-sized chunks so playback never stalls or cuts off — a common failure mode with Chrome's raw speech engine on long input. Because every voice is local to your machine, there are no API keys, no usage limits, no network round-trip, and your text never leaves the page. Your preferred voice, speed and pitch are remembered between visits, and the text itself lives in a shareable URL so you can send a "read this aloud" link to a colleague. Works on desktop and mobile Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox; if a browser lacks the API you get a clear, friendly notice instead of a silent failure.

Tool details

Input: Text + Numbers; The page exposes text boxes, numeric controls, file pickers, or structured inputs depending on the tool.
Output: Live result; The result area focuses on usable output, with copy, download, or preview actions when supported.
Privacy: Browser-side processing; The main tool logic does not call an external API, so inputs normally stay in the current tab.
Save / share: Shareable URL state; Key settings are encoded in the URL so another person can reopen the same setup.
Performance budget: Initial JS <= 10 KB; No WASM budget is declared, keeping the tool quick to open on mobile.
Best fit: Text · Content Creator; Category and role tags drive related tools, internal links, and quick fit checks.

How to use

1. Input

Paste or drop your content into the tool panel.
2. Process

Click the button. All processing is local in your browser.
3. Copy / Download

Copy the result or download to disk in one click.

How Text to Speech fits into your work

Use it to clean, compare, reshape, or extract plain text before it goes into a document, CMS, spreadsheet, or prompt.

Text jobs

Removing repetitive cleanup work from everyday writing and operations.
Making text easier to compare, paste, publish, or feed into another tool.
Working with content locally when the text is private or unfinished.

Text checks

Scan for unintended whitespace, duplicate lines, and lost punctuation.
For long text, test the first few lines before applying the whole change.
Copy the final output only after checking the preview.

Good next steps

These links move the current task into a more complete workflow.

Real-world use cases

Proofread by ear instead of by eye
Your eyes skim what you meant to write, not what you actually wrote — that is why typos survive five read-throughs. Workflow: paste your draft, pick a clear voice, set speed to 1.0x, press Play, and follow along in your editor. Doubled words ("the the"), dropped articles, and a sentence that runs on for forty words all jump out the instant a voice tries to say them. I catch two or three errors per page this way that silent reading missed.
Make a long article accessible while you do something else
You have a 2,000-word piece open but you need to make lunch. Paste it in, choose a natural-sounding voice, push speed to 1.3x, and let it read while you chop vegetables. The tool chunks the text by sentence so it plays the whole thing without the Chrome cut-off bug, and you can pause the moment a section needs your full attention and resume after.
Drill foreign-language pronunciation
Learning Spanish or Mandarin? Paste a sentence, switch the voice dropdown to an es-ES or zh-CN voice, drop the speed to 0.7x, and listen to how a native-locale voice stresses each word. Repeat the line out loud after it. Bump the speed back to 1.0x once you can keep up. The language tag next to each voice (en-US, fr-FR, ja-JP) tells you exactly which locale you're hearing.
Rehearse a script or narration before you record
Writing voice-over for a video or a podcast intro? Paste the script, set a voice close to the tone you want, and play it at 1.0x. Hearing it out loud exposes tongue-twisters, awkward breath points, and lines that are three words too long — far faster than reading it in your head. Edit, replay, repeat until it flows, then record the human version.
Rest your eyes during a long reading session
After hours of screen time, reading one more report is painful. Paste it here, pick a comfortable voice and a slow-ish 0.9x speed, lean back, and listen with your eyes closed. Because nothing is uploaded, you can do this with an internal document you would never paste into a cloud TTS service.

Common pitfalls

Expecting a download button. The Web Speech API has no recording hook, so there is no MP3/WAV export anywhere in the browser — this is the API's limit, not a setting you missed. Use an OS audio recorder during playback if you must capture it.
Picking a voice on one device and assuming it exists everywhere. Voices are bundled by the OS, so a share link that "sounds great" on your Mac may fall back to the system default on a friend's Windows PC. The text transfers; the exact voice does not.
Blaming the tool when a "natural / enhanced" voice goes silent offline. Some premium Microsoft and Apple voices stream from the cloud despite appearing in the list. If audio dies without internet, switch to a plain system voice that synthesizes locally.

Privacy

Every word you type is read by the speech engine built into your own operating system. The text is passed to window.speechSynthesis locally and is never sent to a Toolora server or any third party — there is no network request involved in playback (with one caveat: a handful of "cloud / enhanced" OS voices synthesize server-side at the OS level, outside our control; pick a standard local voice to stay fully offline). Your voice, speed, pitch and volume preferences are saved in your browser's localStorage, never transmitted. The text you enter is also encoded into the shareable URL, so treat a share link the same way you'd treat pasting the text into a chat — fine for an article, not for a password or private note.

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Text to Speech — Read Any Text Aloud in Your Browser

What this tool does

Tool details

How to use

1. Input

2. Process

3. Copy / Download

How Text to Speech fits into your work

Text jobs

Text checks

Good next steps

Real-world use cases

Proofread by ear instead of by eye

Make a long article accessible while you do something else

Drill foreign-language pronunciation

Rehearse a script or narration before you record

Rest your eyes during a long reading session

Common pitfalls

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