Paste a word, a sentence or a short dialogue, choose a voice for the language you are learning and press play to hear it as many times as you like. It is free with no account, and the cloud voices cover English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean. One conversion takes up to 3,000 characters.
Free text to speech: paste up to 3,000 characters, pick a voice and listen in your browser. The voices load in a moment.
Paste a short passage. Start with one sentence or a short dialogue in the language you are learning.
Choose the language and a voice. Pick the language in the tool and a voice for it.
Listen at normal speed. Play it once without reading along, then again with the text in front of you.
Slow it down and repeat. Lower the speed in Advanced settings and say each sentence aloud after the voice.
Download the audio. With a cloud voice, download the MP3 and practise away from the screen.
Shadowing means repeating each sentence right after the voice. Dictation means listening to a sentence and writing it down, then checking against the text. You can also record your own reading and compare it with the voice, or turn the vocabulary of a lesson into an audio file for a commute.
Hard sounds are easier to hear at a lower speed. Slow the voice in Advanced settings, listen several times, then return to normal speed to train your ear for real conversation.
A synthetic voice is a steady model to listen to, and it never gets tired. It is not a teacher or a native speaker. It can get a word wrong, especially names and words whose reading depends on context, so check a new or unusual word in a dictionary.
The 6 cloud voices cover English, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean. Voices on your device may offer more languages; they play in the browser but cannot be saved.
Each conversion takes up to 3,000 characters. Without an account you can convert 10,000 characters a day; when you are signed in, 30,000 characters a day.
You can use it to hear how a text sounds and to practise listening and repeating. It does not check your pronunciation.
English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean with the cloud voices, and any other language your device has voices for.
Yes. It is free and needs no sign-up. Without an account you can convert 10,000 characters a day, and 30,000 characters a day when you are signed in.
Yes, with a cloud voice. Press Convert and download the MP3.
Paste it into the free tool, pick a voice and press play. Cloud voices download as MP3, free within the daily limits.