Paste text and hear it read aloud using Web Speech API. Adjust voice, speed, and pitch in real time.
Type or paste the text you want read aloud.
Select from available voice options and adjust speed.
Click play to hear your text spoken by the selected voice.
This tool reads pasted text out loud. It takes the words in the box, hands them to the browser's built-in speech synthesizer, and speaks them through your device's speakers, with controls to switch voice and adjust speaking rate and pitch as it plays. Everything happens on the page: no account, no upload, and no server-side conversion; the voices on offer are exactly what your browser and operating system provide. The thing users most often get wrong: the voice list is not the same everywhere - it comes from locally installed voices, so it changes with every device and browser.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Expected output
The sentence is spoken aloud in the currently selected voice, at the current rate and pitch - normal speed and pitch (1.0 in the API) when the controls are untouched. The player shows the utterance playing, with Pause, Resume, and Stop. The result is audio only: no text, transcript, or file is returned.
The tool's only output is sound: it wraps the pasted text in a speech utterance and hands it to the browser's speech synthesizer, which pronounces the words with the selected voice. Rate and pitch change how the sentence sounds, never what it says.
The pasted text becomes one speech utterance. Its text, voice, rate, and pitch come from the controls, then the page calls speechSynthesis.speak(). The operating system's speech engine renders the words to audio: rate multiplies speaking speed (1.0 is normal), pitch raises or lowers the voice. Pause, Resume, and Stop map to the synthesizer's pause(), resume(), and cancel() calls; an end event fires when the utterance finishes.
The voice list is built from speechSynthesis.getVoices(), which lists what the operating system and browser have installed: Apple voices on macOS and iOS, Windows' own set, and Google voices on Android and in Chrome. The list populates asynchronously, so voices can appear a moment after the page loads, and a voice picked here will not exist on another machine.
Because the page ships no voices of its own. Speech synthesis comes from the operating system and browser on each device - Apple voices on macOS and iOS, Windows' set on Windows, Google voices on Android and in Chrome. Voice names are machine-specific, so a voice you chose on one device will not appear on another.
No to both, with one nuance. The text is processed by the page itself, so it is not uploaded to the site; but the Web Speech API only plays audio and gives no access to the sound it produces, so there is no MP3 or WAV to download here. Chrome's 'Google' voices are the nuance: those are synthesized on Google's servers and need a network connection.
The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.
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