Text to Speech (browser voices)
Browser APIFile & Data ConversionRead text aloud using the voices already installed in your browser or device.
Heads up: this tool uses a service built into your browser, and your browser vendor may process the input on its own servers. The tool page explains this before you start.
This browser does not provide the speech synthesis service this tool uses, so there is nothing to play. Chrome, Edge and Safari on desktop and mobile all include it.
- 1Read the notice at the top: it explains which voices run on your device and which are online services of your browser vendor.
- 2Paste or type the text you want to hear.
- 3Pick a voice (the list says "On this device" or "Online" next to each one) and set the speed and pitch.
- 4Press Listen. Use Pause, Resume and Stop while it reads.
Paste the notice "The library opens at nine in the morning. Members can borrow up to five books at a time, and each loan lasts three weeks. Late returns cost fifty cents per day." At 160 characters it is spoken as a single chunk; a full article is split into chunks of up to 200 characters at sentence ends, and the status line counts them ("Reading part 2 of 6") as it goes.
- The voices you see depend entirely on your device and browser: a Windows PC, an Android phone and a Mac offer different lists, and Ovatly cannot add voices.
- There is no audio download. The browser speech API can play speech but gives no way to save it as an audio file, so this tool does not promise one.
- Very long single utterances stall some browsers, which is why long text is spoken in sentence-sized chunks.
No. Ovatly receives nothing. With an on-device voice the text never leaves your machine; with an "Online" voice your browser sends the text to its own vendor (such as Google or Microsoft), which is stated on the page before you press Listen.
About this tool
The Text to Speech reader speaks your text aloud using the voices already installed in your browser and operating system. Paste an article, study notes or your own draft and listen instead of reading, at the speed and pitch you prefer.
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