Text to Speech — read text aloud in your browser
Read any text aloud using your device’s voices. Choose voice, speed and pitch, with pause and resume — right in your browser.
🔒 Runs entirely in your browser. Your input and output are never sent to a server or stored — fully private.
Voices are provided by your device/OS, so availability and quality vary. The text is processed by your browser’s built-in speech engine — on some browsers or voices this may use the OS’s online TTS service.
About this tool
Type or paste any text and hear it read aloud: this tool drives the speech synthesis engine already built into your browser and operating system. Pick from the voices installed on your device — many systems offer dozens across different languages — then adjust the speaking rate and pitch until it sounds right. It is useful for proofreading by ear, checking pronunciation, preparing announcements or simply resting your eyes. The tool itself runs client-side in your browser: your text is not sent to our servers and there is nothing to install or sign up for.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the voices come from, and why do they differ between devices?
The voices belong to your operating system and browser, not to this site — Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Chrome each ship their own set, which is why the list looks different on every device. Most voices are synthesised locally, but be aware that some higher-quality system voices are processed by the OS vendor's online speech service, so speech may pause if the connection drops. To get more or better voices, install them in your system's language or accessibility settings and reload the page.
What do the rate and pitch controls change?
Rate controls how fast the words are spoken: below 1 slows the voice down for proofreading or language learning, above 1 speeds it up for skimming long passages. Pitch shifts the voice higher or lower without changing the speed, which can make a voice sound brighter, deeper or simply less monotonous. The two are independent, so you can combine a slow rate with a natural pitch. Sensible starting points are a rate of 0.9–1.1 and the default pitch, then adjust to taste.
Is my text sent to a server or saved anywhere?
The tool itself is entirely client-side: your text stays in the page, is never sent to our servers and is discarded when you leave. The one caveat sits in the speech engine — if you pick a system voice that your OS processes online, the operating system may pass the text to its own speech service to render the audio. If that matters for confidential text, choose a locally installed voice; with local voices the whole pipeline, from typing to sound, happens on your device.