Speak English Text Aloud

The situation

Set Speak in to English. The written language is read from the text, so the words stay the words you pasted. Acronyms and product names are the lines to hear, because a voice may spell what you wanted said as a word, or the reverse.

The reading

A Studio or Mood voice can be previewed in English before you run the script. Clone if the deck should sound like the trainer: three to fifteen seconds of her voice, quiet room, permission ticked. A longer sample keeps the first twelve seconds. Background music in the sample will be in the copy.

What to correct

When an acronym is spelled instead of said, rewrite that sentence the way it should be spoken and speak the script again. Download the M4A for the deck.

Using the tool on this page

• Paste the text. The language it is written in is read from the words. Set the language it should be spoken in. The same language speaks the words as written.
• Studio and Mood voices play a short sample in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Hebrew need a recording of 3 to 15 seconds from someone you have permission to copy. A longer sample keeps the first 12 seconds.
• The reading is priced like a video dub: 50 credits per minute (5¢), minimum 2 minutes per file. A short paragraph still meets the 2-minute minimum.
• When it finishes, the reading stays on this page. Edit the script and speak it again: that is a new reading of the whole script at the same dubbing price, including the 2-minute minimum. Download the audio. Files stay 120 minutes. A video dub is a different job and opens in the dub editor. More is on the text to audio translator page.