Free Text to Speech Online
Convert Any Text to Natural Speech
Turn any text into natural-sounding speech with 50+ free AI voices and 40+ languages. Paste your text, adjust the speed, and listen hands-free — no download needed.
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Listening to your Text files hands-free is simple with ReadLoudly.
Add Your Text
Paste your text or upload a .txt file to ReadLoudly.
Choose Your Section
Jump to the part of your text you want to hear.
Press Play & Listen
Hit play and let ReadLoudly read your text aloud—hands-free.
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?
- Students — listen to textbooks, research papers, and study notes during commutes
- Professionals — review reports, emails, and documents hands-free
- Content creators — proofread writing by hearing it read aloud
- Language learners — practice pronunciation with native-language voices
- People with reading difficulties — dyslexia, ADHD, visual impairments, or screen fatigue
- Multitaskers — absorb information while exercising, cooking, or driving
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.
| 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.
| 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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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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