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Convert text into natural-sounding voice instantly with ease.
Text to Voice reads pasted text aloud through the Web Speech API's SpeechSynthesis engine, using the voices your own operating system and browser already provide, with speak, pause, resume and stop controls. It suits anyone proofreading a draft by ear, rehearsing a script, or making written material listenable. Speed is adjustable from 0.1 to 3.0 in 0.1 steps, with separate pitch and volume sliders, and the voice list shows each voice's language tag so you can match the text.
Open Text to Voice Tool on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Paste or type into the Text Input box ("Enter text to convert to speech...").
In Voice Settings, choose a voice from the dropdown — each option shows its name and language tag — and set the Speed slider (0.1 to 3.0 in 0.1 steps) plus the separate Pitch and Volume sliders.
Press Speak to hear the text through your device's speech engine; Pause holds the current position, Resume continues from there, and Stop cancels playback.
The list is populated from the browser's own voice inventory and reloads on the voiceschanged event, so voices added by your OS appear without any extra download.
Rate runs 0.1 to 3.0 and pitch is a separate slider, so you can slow a technical passage down without the chipmunk effect that comes from changing playback speed alone.
Pausing holds the utterance at its current position and Resume carries on from there, so you can stop to take a note mid-paragraph without replaying from the top.
No. SpeechSynthesis plays audio directly through the system's speech engine and exposes no recording stream, so there is no file to save. To get an audio file you need a server-side or desktop TTS engine that writes to disk.
The voice list comes from your operating system and browser, so an empty list means none are installed or the browser has not finished loading them. Voices often arrive a moment after page load via the voiceschanged event — wait a second and reopen the dropdown; on Linux you may need to install a speech engine such as espeak first.
Start at 1.0, which is the engine's normal rate, and nudge up in 0.1 steps; most people settle between 1.2 and 1.5 for familiar material. The slider tops out at 3.0, but intelligibility drops sharply above roughly 2.0 on most system voices.
No. The text stays in the page and is handed to the browser's built-in speech synthesiser. Note that some platform voices are cloud-backed by the OS vendor rather than local — if that matters for sensitive text, pick a voice your system marks as local.