Need to hear how a paragraph actually sounds before you send it, or want a page read aloud while you do something else? This text to speech tool turns anything you type or paste into spoken audio, right in your browser. Pick a voice, adjust the speed, and press play. No software to install, no account, nothing to upload.

There are two ways to generate the voice: an instant option that uses your browser’s own speech engine, and an optional higher-quality neural voice that also lets you save the result as an MP3 or WAV file.

Why people use this tool

• Catch awkward phrasing or typos before hitting send. Hearing text out loud makes mistakes obvious in a way reading silently doesn’t
• Proofread long documents or articles without straining your eyes
• Preview how a script, ad, or video voiceover will actually sound before recording it for real
• Make written content easier to consume for anyone who prefers listening over reading
• Practice pronunciation when learning a new language
• Turn notes, drafts, or long articles into audio you can listen to while doing something else

Two ways to turn text into speech

The Standard Voices tab uses the speech engine already built into your browser and operating system. It’s instant: no download, no waiting, and it works completely offline. Voice quality and the number of available voices depend on your browser and OS. Chrome on Windows or macOS usually offers dozens of voices across many languages; Safari and Firefox ship a smaller set. This is the fastest way to just hear your text read back to you.

The HD Voices tab uses a small neural text-to-speech model that runs locally in your browser using WebAssembly. The first time you enable it, it downloads a one-time voice model (about 90MB) and caches it, so every generation after that is instant and still fully offline. The trade-off is that HD Voices currently only supports English, and generating audio takes a few seconds rather than being instantaneous, since it’s actually synthesizing the waveform instead of just calling your OS’s speech engine.

Fine-tuning how it sounds

Both modes let you adjust playback speed. Standard Voices also gives you pitch and volume controls, plus a language filter so you can narrow a long voice list down to the ones that match the text you’re reading. If your browser has voices installed for multiple languages, switching between them takes one click.

HD Voices trades some of those knobs for a curated set of eleven English voices (American and British, male and female), each measured for clarity and picked to sound natural rather than robotic. You can still adjust speed before generating.

Saving the audio to a file

This is the main difference between the two modes. Standard Voices, like most browser-based speech engines, can only play audio out loud. There’s no way to capture what the browser plays and turn it into a downloadable file, that’s simply not something the underlying API exposes.

HD Voices doesn’t have that limitation, because it generates the actual audio data rather than just piping sound to your speakers. Once you generate a clip, you can download it as a WAV file for editing software, or as an MP3 at 128, 192, or 320 kbps for something smaller and more portable. If you need a downloadable file, HD Voices is the mode to use.

Where the processing actually happens

Nothing here touches a server. Standard Voices relies entirely on your browser’s built-in speech synthesis, the same technology behind screen readers and accessibility tools already on your device. HD Voices downloads its model once and then runs the neural network locally using WebAssembly, the same way an offline app would. Your text never leaves your device in either mode, which matters if you’re reading anything private, like drafts, internal notes, or anything else you wouldn’t want passing through a third-party server.

Once you have an audio file, the Audio Cutter can trim it down to just the part you need, and the Audio Converter handles switching between formats if you need something other than MP3 or WAV. Generating several clips and want them as one file? Merge Audio combines them with optional crossfades. And if you’d rather record your own voice instead of a synthesized one, the Voice Recorder captures audio straight from your microphone.