text to speech in english
Hearing an English text read by a native voice helps both someone learning the language and anyone who just wants to review an English text without reading it on screen. This page opens the tool already prioritizing an English voice in the automatic selection.
Pasting a study text and listening at a reduced rate is a common practice for anyone building up their English listening skills.
Hearing your own English text read aloud helps catch agreement mistakes that slip by during silent reading.
Because they are technologies from different eras. Voices badged "Basic" are concatenative or formant synthesizers your operating system has shipped since the 2000s: they assemble speech by gluing recorded fragments, which is where the metallic sound comes from. Voices badged "Natural" are already neural models from the system itself (Microsoft's "Natural" voices, Google's on Android and Chrome). Those badged "Neural" and "Premium" are models this tool downloads and runs in your browser, and they are the best sounding. If the current voice is ugly, the fix is to filter by "Neural" and pick one in your language.
It helps you hear how a word or phrase should sound (the synthesized voice's reference pronunciation), but it does not evaluate or correct your own pronunciation, it only reads the text aloud. Combining a reduced rate with word highlighting works well as support material for repeat-after-me practice.
Yes, if your system has an "en-GB" voice installed, it shows up in the voice selector, grouped separately from "en-US". This page's automatic selection only prioritizes American English as a starting point, you can switch manually at any time.
No voices
No voice matches these filters.
The pitch control exists only for system voices. In neural voices the timbre is part of the model, and speed is applied inside synthesis, so the voice never turns squeaky.
The system voice never hands its audio to the page, so there is nothing to export. Pick a Neural or Premium voice to produce MP3, WAV and subtitles.
All processing happens in your browser: the text, the synthesized audio, the subtitles and the pronunciation dictionary are never sent to any server. Neural voice models are downloaded from public Hugging Face repositories and kept in browser storage (OPFS), on this device only.