Free text to speech online
Paste your text, choose a voice in one of 20 languages, and download an MP3. No sign-up, no watermark, nothing stored.
Need to convert a whole PDF or DOCX? Use the document converter.
What the free tool gives you
No account, no watermark
Paste, convert, download. Nothing gates the audio and nothing is spoken over it.
20 languages
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, Ukrainian and more.
Standard MP3 export
A plain MP3 file that plays anywhere. No proprietary format, no player lock-in.
Nothing stored
Your text is converted in memory and never written to our database or storage.
How to get a good result
Text-to-speech quality depends far more on the text you feed it than on the voice you pick. A few things make a large difference, and they are the same things that trip up every tool in this category:
- Clean up the punctuation first. Speech engines use punctuation to decide where to pause. A paragraph pasted out of a PDF often loses its full stops at line breaks, which produces one long breathless sentence. Adding the periods back is the single highest-value edit you can make.
- Strip headers, footers, and page numbers. Copying from a PDF usually drags in running headers and page numbers that the engine will dutifully read aloud in the middle of a sentence. Our document converter filters these automatically; if you are pasting by hand, delete them.
- Spell out anything unusual on first use. Acronyms, chemical formulae, and non-English proper nouns are where every engine guesses. Writing “the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)” once at the top gives the listener the anchor even if the abbreviation is mispronounced later.
- Pick the voice for the length. A bright, energetic voice is pleasant for 30 seconds and tiring across a 40-minute reading. For long-form listening, a flatter and slower voice is almost always the better choice.
What this page cannot do
The tool above is a genuine preview of the conversion engine, not a crippled demo. But it is capped at a paragraph, and it does not do the parts of the job that actually take time in a real accessibility workflow:
Whole documents
Upload a PDF or DOCX and get the full text extracted, cleaned of headers and page furniture, and converted in one pass.
Read-along highlighting
Word-level highlighting synced to the audio, which is what makes TTS usable for students with reading-based accommodations.
Premium voices and 32 languages
3,000+ voices with markedly better prosody on long-form academic prose.
Frequently asked questions
Is this text-to-speech tool really free?
Yes. The tool on this page converts up to 600 characters at a time with no account, no email address, and no credit card. You can play the audio and download it as an MP3. There is no watermark and no spoken branding on the output. The limit exists because generating speech costs us money per character, not as a lever to make you sign up.
Do I need to create an account?
No. Nothing on this page requires an account. You only need one if you want to convert longer text, upload PDF or DOCX files, save a conversion history, or use the premium voices — all of which are part of the free 7-day trial.
What is the character limit and why is there one?
600 characters per conversion, roughly a solid paragraph. Each conversion runs against a paid speech API on our side, so an unlimited anonymous tool would simply be a free API for scrapers. A free trial account lifts the cap to full documents.
Can I use the audio commercially?
Audio generated in the free preview is intended for evaluation. For classroom distribution, course materials, published content, or anything else with an audience, use a trial or paid plan, where the commercial usage terms are set out in writing in our terms of service.
Which languages and voices are available here?
The free tool covers all 20 standard languages and six standard voices. Paid plans add a premium engine with 3,000+ voices across 32 languages, plus read-along word highlighting and pronunciation controls.
Is my text stored or used to train anything?
No. Text submitted to the free tool is sent to the speech engine, converted, and returned. It is not written to our database, not saved to storage, and not used for model training. The audio is generated in memory and handed straight back to your browser.
How is this different from the paid product?
This page is a preview of the conversion engine. The product adds document upload with PDF and DOCX text extraction, unlimited length, saved history, shared team workspaces, read-along word highlighting, pronunciation dictionaries, an API, and LMS embedding — the things an accessibility office or a department actually needs day to day.