read text aloud online
Sometimes it is more convenient to listen to a text than to read it, during a commute, while doing something else, or just to rest your eyes. This page opens the tool with a longer sample text, showing how it handles a full paragraph.
Text of that length is exactly the scenario where competing tools tend to hang or stop midway.
Text pasted from an email often comes with odd line breaks, the tool normalizes that automatically before reading.
No. Text-to-speech conversion uses the browser's own Web Speech API (`speechSynthesis`), the same engine that powers screen readers and accessibility apps on the operating system. The text never leaves your device, even when the selected voice is a "network" voice (some system voices rely on an online service from the browser or OS vendor to synthesize the audio, but that is the browser's own decision, not this tool's, and the voice list already flags which ones are local and which depend on the network).
There is no artificial limit imposed by the tool itself, the automatic chunking is exactly what allows reading text of any length without hanging. Extremely long text (a whole book, for instance) simply produces a longer queue of speech chunks, which is expected.
You can pause and resume within the same page session, but the position is not saved if you close the tab, since the reading progress itself is not persisted (only the text you typed stays saved, not the reading position). The previous/next sentence buttons help you jump back to a specific point quickly after reopening.
This tool does not offer an MP3 download: browsers do not let a page reliably capture the audio synthesized by the Web Speech API. To keep an audio file, record the playback with your own operating system's screen/audio recorder, or use a cloud-based text-to-speech service built for file export.
Register a term (an acronym, a technical name) and what should be spoken instead. The replacement is applied before reading and saved in this browser.
Everything runs in your browser: the text, the synthesized audio and the pronunciation dictionary are never sent to any server. The dictionary and voice preferences are saved locally (localStorage) on this device only.