Listen to any text read aloud using your browser's built-in voices | 100% Local
Uses the Web Speech API and your browser's own installed voices — no external service involved.
Fine-tune speech rate from 0.5x to 2x and pitch from 0 to 2 to match your preference.
Play, pause, resume, and stop speech at any time with clear, responsive controls.
Choose from every voice your browser and operating system make available, including different accents and languages.
If your browser doesn't support speech synthesis, a clear message appears instead of a broken page.
Your text is converted to speech entirely on your device — nothing is ever uploaded anywhere.
Text to speech is useful for proofreading your writing by ear, making content more accessible, or simply listening to articles and notes hands-free. This tool uses the Web Speech API built directly into your browser — there is no external service, no account, and no text ever leaves your device.
Browsers fetch their list of available speech voices asynchronously, sometimes only after a short delay following page load. This tool listens for the browser's voiceschanged event so the voice dropdown reliably fills in with every available voice, even in browsers where voices aren't ready immediately.
Unlike cloud-based text to speech services, this tool never transmits your text anywhere. Speech synthesis happens using your operating system's or browser's own voice engine, right inside the page.
No. This tool uses your browser's built-in Web Speech API (speechSynthesis) to convert text to speech entirely on your device. Your text is never sent to UtilityX or any third party — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Browsers load available voices asynchronously. This tool listens for the voiceschanged event and repopulates the voice list automatically once your browser reports its voices, so the list should fill in within a moment of the page loading.
Most modern browsers, including Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox, support the Web Speech API. Available voices and languages vary by browser and operating system. If your browser doesn't support it, this tool shows a clear message instead of failing silently.
Yes. Use the Rate slider (0.5x to 2x) to make speech slower or faster, and the Pitch slider (0 to 2) to make the voice lower or higher, before or during playback.
There's no hard limit enforced by this tool, but very long text may be handled differently across browsers. For best results, use reasonably sized passages of text.