To audition a podcast intro or ad read, paste the script into VoiceHue, pick a voice and press play; it is free, needs no sign-up and accepts 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.
An intro is usually 20 to 40 seconds, or about 50 to 100 words. Write it, listen to it with two or three voices and choose the one that matches your show. Repeat for the outro and sponsor reads.
Podcast voices set expectations in the first seconds. Try the same line in a calm voice and a brighter one, and compare how the pacing changes at slower and faster speeds.
Listening to the summary of an episode shows whether it is clear. Paste the episode description and listen for filler words and long sentences.
Cloud voices are live: they play in the browser and download as MP3, free within the daily limits. The voices of your device also work for listening. A free developer API is available on the developers page, and one-time credit packs are planned, with no date yet (see pricing).
The best intros state the show name, the topic and one reason to listen in under 30 seconds. Once you pick a voice and speed, keep them for every episode so listeners recognise the show immediately.
Ad reads and calls to action are easy to over-write. Paste the text, listen once and cut anything you stumble over. If the line sounds like an advertisement rather than a recommendation, rewrite it in shorter sentences.
Play the intro next to a few seconds of your episode audio. If the pace or tone feels different, adjust the speed, simplify the wording or choose another voice until the first thirty seconds sound like one show. Do this again whenever you change the intro, so the opening never drifts from the rest of the episode.
Yes, with no sign-up.
About 75 words at a normal speaking pace.
Yes. Choose a cloud voice, press Convert and download the MP3. It is free within the daily limit: 2,000 characters a day without an account and 20,000 when signed in.
Paste it into the free tool, pick a voice and press play. Cloud voices download as MP3, free within the daily limits.