Text to Speech
Paste your text, pick a voice, and listen. Download the audio if you want to keep it.
- Multiple voices
- Downloadable audio
- Free, no sign-up
Hear your text read aloud
Paste text, pick a voice and press play. Useful for proofreading — your ear catches the clumsy sentence your eye skims past — and for anyone who would rather listen than read.
It uses the speech voices already built into your browser and operating system, which is why there is no quota, no account and no upload.
Why the voice list differs on every device
The voices come from your own device, not from us. A Mac, a Windows PC, an Android phone and an iPhone each ship a different set — so the same page offers different options depending where you open it.
- If a voice sounds robotic, try another — the quality gap between voices on the same device is usually larger than between devices.
- Installing additional system voices in your OS settings adds them here with no change to the page.
- The language filter narrows a long list quickly, which is the fastest way to find the good ones.
Speed, pitch and volume
Three controls, and speed is the one that actually matters. For proofreading, slower than natural is better — you catch the missing word.
- Speed around 0.9 for proofreading, 1.2 to 1.5 for getting through something quickly.
- Pitch is mostly cosmetic and rarely improves comprehension.
- Use it on your own writing before publishing. Hearing a sentence aloud is the oldest editing trick there is, and it still works.
- 1Paste your textAny length.
- 2Filter by languageNarrows a long voice list.
- 3Pick a voiceTry two or three.
- 4Set the speedSlower for proofreading.
Being honest about the limits
This is browser speech synthesis, not a studio voice service. It is excellent for listening and proofreading, and it is not what you would narrate a commercial video with.
- Download support varies. Some browsers let you save the audio and some do not — that is the browser’s decision, not the tool’s.
- Very long text is better broken into sections; some engines stop at a length limit of their own.
- Pronunciation of names and technical terms is inconsistent across voices, which is worth checking before you rely on it.
Your text never leaves your device
Speech synthesis happens locally, which is the direct consequence of using your own system voices rather than a service.
- Nothing is uploaded, so an unpublished draft or a confidential document can go in.
- There is no per-character quota, because there is no provider to meter it.
- No account, and nothing kept afterwards.
Four numbers worth keeping
Why Parix.ai gives this away
Using the voices already on your machine costs us nothing per play, which is why there is no quota and no sign-up. These tools are how people find us — and that works better when they are clear about what they are not.
Read my text aloudWho uses it
Writers proofreading by ear, students getting through reading lists, and anyone who absorbs spoken text more easily than written.
Pair it with
Fix what you hear with the Grammar Checker, tighten it with the Text Summarizer, or pull text out of an image first with OCR.
When you need production audio
For published narration you want a dedicated voice service. We will say that rather than pretend browser synthesis is the same thing.