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ReadLoudly text to speech reader: pasted text on the left, the spoken text with highlighting on the right, voice, speed and pitch controls above and a play bar below
Press Listen and your text opens in the ReadLoudly reader — pick a voice, set the speed, follow the highlighted words. Free, no signup.

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What is Text to Speech?

Text to speech (TTS) turns written text into spoken audio using AI voices. To convert text to speech free with ReadLoudly, paste or type your text, choose one of 50+ AI voices, set the speed, and press play — it reads aloud instantly in your browser, no signup or download.

ReadLoudly's text to speech engine uses advanced neural voice models to produce audio that sounds natural and engaging — not robotic. Whether you're a student reviewing lecture notes, a professional catching up on reports, or someone with dyslexia who benefits from audio-first learning, TTS makes written content accessible to everyone.

Who uses text to speech?

Why choose ReadLoudly for text to speech?

Unlike basic browser TTS that sounds mechanical, ReadLoudly uses AI-trained voices that understand context, pacing, and natural speech patterns. Key advantages:

  • 50+ free voices in your browser, and 1,200+ premium voices on paid plans
  • 40+ languages — from English and Spanish to Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi
  • Multi-format support — PDF, EPUB, MOBI, DOCX, TXT, HTML, and more
  • OCR for scanned documents — even image-based PDFs become listenable
  • Highlights and bookmarks — annotate while you listen
  • Chat with documents — ask AI questions about your content
  • No installation — works in any browser on any device

Languages and voices

Every language below has premium AI voices in the ReadLoudly library — 1,892 voices across 64 locales at the last count. Free browser voices are available in most of them too, depending on the voices your device ships with.

Premium AI voices available per language on ReadLoudly
Language Natural voices Standard voices
English (US) 590 10
English (UK) 98 7
Russian 55 5
Swedish 49 7
Hindi 49 6
Japanese 51 4
Tamil 50 4
Turkish 49 5
French 50 2
Italian 46 2
Korean 43 4
Bengali 42 4
Danish 44 2
Dutch 44 2
Portuguese (Brazil) 41 5
German 42 2
Gujarati 40 4
Marathi 41 3
Urdu 41 2
Norwegian (Bokmål) 38 2
Spanish (Mexico) 38 0
Telugu 31 4
English (India) 13 6
English (Australia) 10 4
Spanish (Spain) 9 4
French (Canada) 8 4
Hebrew 8 4
Vietnamese 8 4
Cantonese 10 0
Filipino 6 4
Spanish (US) 6 3
Arabic 4 4
Indonesian 4 4
Kannada 4 4
Malay 4 4
Malayalam 4 4
Mandarin Chinese 4 4
Punjabi 4 4
Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan) 3 3
Polish 4 2
Portuguese (Portugal) 4 2
Amharic 2 2
Cantonese (Hong Kong) 0 4
Dutch (Belgium) 2 2
Finnish 3 1
Greek 3 1
Ukrainian 3 1
Estonian 2 1
Arabic (UAE) 2 0
Czech 1 1
Hungarian 1 1
Romanian 1 1
Slovak 1 1
Thai 1 1
Afrikaans 0 1
Basque 0 1
Bulgarian 0 1
Catalan 0 1
English (Nigeria) 1 0
Galician 0 1
Icelandic 0 1
Latvian 0 1
Lithuanian 0 1
Serbian 0 1

Free vs premium vs plain browser text to speech

Your browser already has a read-aloud function. Here is what changes when you use ReadLoudly's free tool, and what the paid plans add on top.

Comparison of plain browser text to speech, ReadLoudly free and ReadLoudly paid plans
Browser read-aloud ReadLoudly Free ReadLoudly Core / Plus / Pro
Voices Whatever your device installed 50+ browser voices, previewed before you pick 1,200+ natural AI voices in 40+ languages
Input Selected text on one page Pasted text, TXT, PDF, EPUB, DOCX and more Entire documents up to 500 MB, processed at once
Follow along No Word highlighting, 0.5×–3× speed, pause and resume Same, plus pitch control and saved listening position
Download No No, listen in the browser MP3 download for offline listening
Monthly allowance Unlimited Unlimited browser narration 100k / 200k / 400k voice credits for premium voices
Price Free Free, no signup, ad-supported $5 / $10 / $19 per month, ad-free

How it works

Once your text is loaded, ReadLoudly feeds it through neural AI voice models and begins reading aloud. Follow along with synchronized text highlighting, pause and resume anytime, or jump between sections. For scanned files, built-in OCR extracts the text first so even image-based pages become listenable.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Free Text to Speech Online – Natural AI Voices | ReadLoudly.

ReadLoudly offers free text-to-speech with 50+ natural AI voices across 40+ languages, and 1,200+ premium voices on paid plans. Paste text or upload a file, choose a voice, and listen instantly — no account or download needed.

Paste your text or upload a .txt file, select a voice and speed, then press play. Your text is converted to natural audio immediately.

Yes on the paid plans. Core ($5/month), Plus ($10/month) and Pro ($19/month) can export the narration as an MP3 for offline listening; the export uses your monthly voice credits like any other premium playback. Free users listen in the browser without downloading.

There is no hard limit on pasted text. Short passages open in the reader instantly; anything longer than a couple of thousand characters is saved as a text file first, up to 10 MB — several million characters. Free browser-voice narration is unlimited in length; premium voices are metered by credits at 4 characters per credit for Standard voices and 1 character per credit for Natural voices.

Paid plans include MP3 download for personal and internal use. Publishing generated audio commercially — in a video, podcast or product — depends on the licence of the specific voice, so check the <a href="/tos/" class="text-[#FF5312] hover:underline">Terms of Use</a> before you publish.

ReadLoudly supports 40+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and more, with multiple voice options per language.

Yes. Adjust playback speed from 0.5x (useful for language learning) up to 3x (for skimming). Pitch control is available on Pro plans.

Yes. Reading and listening to text and text files is free, with no account required to start and no watermark on anything. Paid plans — Core at $5/month, Plus at $10/month, Pro at $19/month — raise the upload size limit, unlock all 1200+ AI voices, add MP3 downloads and offline listening, and remove ads.

Text to Speech accepts pasted text and plain text files directly. If your words live in a document instead, ReadLoudly opens the file for you: ReadLoudly reads 24 file formats aloud: documents (PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF), ebooks (EPUB, MOBI, AZW, FB2, CHM, LRF, LIT, PDB, RB), text and web files (TXT, HTML), comics (CBR, CBZ), and images (via OCR) (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WEBP, TIFF, SVG). Each format has its own dedicated reader page, and all of them use the same 1200+ AI voices.

Yes. This reader runs in the mobile browser on iOS and Android — nothing to install — so you can open a block of text straight from your phone's Files app, an email attachment or a cloud drive. Playback continues in the background, and your position syncs to any other device you sign in on.

It is parsed to extract its text, then removed from the processing servers. ReadLoudly does not train models on your files, does not share them with third parties, and does not make them visible to anyone else. Signed-in users can choose to keep a block of text in their own private library; a guest upload is discarded when the session ends.

Every format gets its own reader page rather than being funnelled into one generic uploader, so nothing loses its format-specific handling. Closest to this page: TXT, DOCX, PDF, EPUB. The Tools page lists all of them.

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