Text to Speech Converter

How it actually works

It speaks text aloud through the browser Web Speech API. window.speechSynthesis is given a SpeechSynthesisUtterance holding your text, and the speed, pitch and volume sliders map directly onto the utterance rate, pitch and volume properties, while the language buttons pick a voice matched by name and language from the list synth.getVoices returns.

The voices are the ones installed on your own browser and operating system, so which you get, and how natural they sound, depends entirely on your device; the presets aim at common Google voices for English, Spanish, French and German. Playback can be spoken, stopped, paused and resumed, and the source text can be copied.

It is playback only: nothing is recorded or exported as an audio file, so there is no download, and depending on the browser a voice may use the platform own online speech service to render the sound.

What that means for your results

Because it rides the native engine there is nothing to install and no text is uploaded to ToolFlic, and rate, pitch and volume are real utterance settings, so the same text spoken twice at the same settings is identical. The honest trade-off is stated up front - this reads aloud, it does not hand you a clip.

Where it falls short — honestly

There is no audio file to download or drop into a video; to capture the speech you would have to record system audio separately. Voice availability and quality vary wildly between browsers and devices, and long passages are spoken as one continuous utterance, so very long text is easier to control in sections. Numbers, acronyms and names often need phonetic respelling to sound right.

A real end-to-end workflow

Paste text, pick a device voice, set a slightly slower rate for dense content, and use Speak with Stop or Pause to control it - a good way to proofread by ear or read a page aloud. To do the reverse and turn speech into text, Audio to Text listens to your microphone; to reshape the wording first, Grammar Checker helps.