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Text to Speech
Read any text aloud using the voices on your device.
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Quick Tool Overview
Text to Speech reads your text aloud using the voices installed on your own device, with rate and pitch control and word-by-word highlighting. Hearing your writing read back is the single most effective proofreading technique there is.
- What it does
- Reads text aloud using your device's voices
- You give it
- Any text
- You get back
- Spoken audio with the text highlighted as it goes
- Best for
- Proofreading, script timing and accessibility
About the Text to Speech
Hearing your own writing read aloud is the single most effective proofreading technique there is. Your eye skips over a missing word; your ear does not. It is also how you check whether a script actually sounds like speech rather than like writing.
This uses the speech synthesis built into your operating system, so the voices are the ones already installed on your device and no audio is generated on a server. Rate, pitch and volume are adjustable, every available voice is listed with its language, and the text is highlighted word by word as it is spoken. Long texts can be paused and resumed, which matters because browsers have a habit of cutting off very long utterances.
Key features of the Text to Speech
Every installed voice listed
With its language and region, including any you have added through your system settings.
Word-by-word highlighting
So you can follow the text as it is spoken, which is what makes proofreading by ear work.
Chrome cut-off worked around
Long text is split into sentence-sized chunks and queued, avoiding the fifteen-second bug.
Rate and pitch control
Slower for proofreading, normal for checking how a script actually sounds.
Pause and resume
Which matters on anything longer than a paragraph.
How to use the Text to Speech
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Paste your text
A draft, a script or anything you want to hear read back.
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Choose a voice
Every voice installed on your device is listed with its language and region.
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Set the rate and pitch
Slower is better for proofreading; normal speed for checking how a script sounds.
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4
Press play
The text is highlighted as it is spoken, and you can pause at any point.
Frequently asked questions
Your operating system. Windows, macOS, Android and iOS each ship a set, and you can install more through your system settings — those appear here automatically.
Not by this page. Speech synthesis happens through the browser's API, which on most platforms uses a local voice. A few cloud-backed voices exist on some systems, and those are marked in the voice list where the browser reports it.
Chrome has a long-standing bug that cuts synthesis off after roughly fifteen seconds. This tool splits long text into sentence-sized chunks and queues them, which works around it.
Because reading silently, your brain fills in what it expects to see. Hearing the words removes that shortcut, so missing words, repeated words and clumsy rhythm all become obvious.
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