Read aloud
Listen to text using local voices available on your device. Choose a voice, adjust speaking speed and pause or stop playback.
Features
- Choose from voices reported as local by the browser.
- Adjust the speaking rate.
- Pause, resume or stop speech playback.
How to use this tool
- Paste or type the text to read in the Reading text field.
- Choose an available local voice and speaking speed.
- Start playback and use pause or stop as needed.
Good to know
This tool is free without sign-up, with unlimited processing and exports within the displayed input limits.
- If no local voice is available, install one in your device settings. This tool plays speech; it does not export an audio file.
Privacy and local processing
This tool processes your input in your browser. Source files and text are not uploaded to a FormatOwl processing server. Advanced-tool access and trial balances are checked online using tool IDs, file types, sizes and page counts. Free tools do not require account authorization. Save the results you need before leaving or refreshing the page.
Speech uses only voices reported as local by your browser. Voice availability depends on your device. Reading fonts and PDF export resources may download when needed.
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