Hearing a text while you follow it with your eyes helps some people who find reading slow or tiring, including some people with dyslexia. VoiceHue reads text aloud for free with no sign-up: paste up to 3,000 characters here, or open a whole document in the reader. It is a general text to speech tool, not a medical or assistive-technology product.
Free text to speech: paste up to 3,000 characters, pick a voice and listen in your browser. The voices load in a moment.
Get the text into VoiceHue. Paste it into the box above, or open the file in the document reader on the read-aloud page.
Choose a voice. Pick a voice that is easy for you to follow. Try two or three.
Set a comfortable speed. Open Advanced settings and slow the speed down if the voice feels fast.
Press play and follow along. Read the text on screen as you listen. In the document reader the sentence being read is highlighted.
Pause when you need to. Stop, go back a sentence or replay a part as often as you like.
Some people find it easier to take in a text when they hear it and read it at the same time, and listening takes the effort of decoding every word off the eyes. This differs from person to person. VoiceHue makes no claim that it treats or improves any condition.
A calm, steady voice and a slightly slower speed suit many readers. Break a long text into short passages, and paste one passage at a time so you can stop between them. Voices on your own device are free and unlimited; cloud voices sound more natural.
The document reader on the read-aloud page opens PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX and Markdown files in your browser and highlights the sentence being read. The file is not uploaded. Scanned PDFs are pictures of pages and have no text to read.
Each conversion takes up to 3,000 characters. Without an account you can listen to 10,000 characters a day with cloud voices; when you are signed in, 30,000 characters a day. Device voices send nothing to our servers and have no daily limit.
It is not a screen reader, a browser extension or a reading-support programme, and it cannot read text that sits in images. If you need a full assistive tool, ask your school, employer or a specialist what is available to you.
No. It is a general text to speech tool. Some people use text to speech to listen and read at the same time.
It is free and needs no account. Without an account you can listen to 10,000 characters a day with cloud voices, and 30,000 characters a day when you are signed in. Device voices are unlimited.
The document reader highlights the sentence being read. The paste-text tool plays the audio without highlighting.
Yes. Open Advanced settings in the tool and lower the speed.
Paste it into the free tool, pick a voice and press play. Cloud voices download as MP3, free within the daily limits.