Text to Speech

The voices your operating system and browser provide, grouped by language, with your own language first. Only voices the browser marks as running on this device are listed. Online voices, such as the Google voices in Chrome or the Microsoft Online voices in Edge, are left out and counted under the list, because the browser sends the text to their provider. Windows, macOS, iOS and Android come with voices; on Linux the browser uses speech-dispatcher, so a voice package such as espeak-ng must be installed.

No. Browsers play these voices straight to the speakers and give web pages no way to record them, so a WAV or MP3 download is not possible with the voices on your device. This page reads aloud; it does not make audio files.

Pausing in the middle of a sentence works differently on every system, and on some (Android and Linux) it stops instead of pausing. So Pause stops the current sentence and Resume reads it again from its start: nothing is skipped. If the browser or the system interrupts the reading, for example when another page starts speaking, the page pauses the same way and says so.

Up to 200,000 characters per read. The text is read sentence by sentence, and sentences longer than about 220 characters are split at a comma or a space. The estimate under the editor assumes about 160 words a minute at normal speed; real voices vary.

For Chinese, Japanese and Korean, sentence by sentence: in a text that mixes languages, a sentence in one of those scripts is read with a voice of its language when this device has one, and, when the chosen voice is Chinese, Japanese or Korean, a sentence in Latin letters with a voice of your own language or English. Every other sentence is read with the chosen voice and its own pronunciation, which may skip characters it does not know. The line above the text names the voice reading each sentence, and the voice list is grouped by language.

Yes, with the voices installed on your device: nothing is fetched while reading.

No. The page loads a small script into your browser and every operation runs on your device. You can check this yourself in the browser's network panel: after the page has loaded there are no upload requests. Closing the tab discards the text.

No. These basic tools are free and add nothing to your data. The only limits are the tool's own: up to 200,000 characters per read; voices are the ones installed on your device. Within them, the practical limit is your device's memory.

Nothing you open or type. While the tab is open, the tool pages keep a short list of the steps taken in it, in the tab's session storage: the step (page opened, started, succeeded, first success, used again or failed), the tool's name, the time, how many files were used and, for a failure, an error code; never a file name, the contents of a file or your text. It holds at most the latest 200 steps, and the browser deletes it when the tab closes. The page never sends it. Where a Report a problem button is shown, you can attach the last 20 steps to your report; nothing is attached unless you tick that box. In local storage the page keeps only choices you made: a Light or Dark theme until you choose System again, the language you picked with the EN / 中文 switch if it differs from your browser's language, and this tool in your recently used list if you switched that list on at the tools page.