Text to speech
Paste text and hear it read aloud with your device’s voices — adjustable speed and pitch, all local.
Runs 100% in your browserHow to convert text to speech
- Paste your text. Type or paste what you want read aloud.
- Choose a voice. Pick from the voices your device offers and set rate and pitch.
- Press Play. Listen, pause or stop at any time.
About text to speech
Hearing text read back is useful for proofreading, accessibility, learning pronunciation, or resting your eyes on a long article. This reader drives the speech synthesiser already built into your browser, so it adds no tracking and sends nothing to a server — your words are spoken on your own device. Voice quality and selection depend on your operating system; modern systems include several natural-sounding options.
Frequently asked questions
- It uses the Web Speech API — the speech engine built into your browser and operating system. Your text is spoken locally; it is not sent to snip.tools.
- Whatever voices your device provides — Chrome, Edge, Safari, macOS, Windows and Android each ship a different set. Low-quality robotic engines (eSpeak, “compact” voices) are hidden by default and the best-sounding voice for your language is preselected; tick “Show all voices” if you really want the full list.
- Older on-device engines — eSpeak on Linux/Android, legacy SAPI voices on Windows — sound mechanical. For natural speech, pick a “Natural” or “Online” voice in Chrome/Edge, or install premium voices: macOS/iOS via Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices, Windows via Settings → Time & language → Speech.
- Yes — the rate and pitch sliders adjust delivery in real time, and you can pause, resume and stop playback.
- Browsers expose speech for playback but not as a saved file. For privacy that is a feature: the audio is generated on the fly and never stored.