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.
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).
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.
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.