Text to Speech

How to convert text to speech

Text to speech works best when the source text is clear and conversational. Paste a short script, choose a supported voice, generate a preview, and listen before deciding whether to download or rewrite. The goal is not to create unlimited audio in one click; the goal is to help you hear how a script will sound before using it in a video, lesson, demo, or private message.

This page uses the same voice preview workflow as the AI Voice Generator, but it is written for users who search for text-to-speech directly. It explains what the tool does, what it does not do, and how to use generated audio responsibly. It does not clone specific people, bypass consent, or produce real-time impersonation.

Use cases

• Video voiceover drafts for tutorials, demos, and social clips.
• Accessibility checks for written content that may later become audio.
• Story, lesson, and announcement previews before final production.
• Private messages where you want to test tone before recording yourself.

Workflow

1. Write a short text passage that you want to hear aloud.
2. Choose a supported voice and generate a preview.
3. Listen for pacing, pronunciation, and clarity before downloading or rewriting.
4. Use the audio only where you have the right to publish or share the script.

Limitations and safe use

Free text-to-speech previews may have character limits, daily limits, voice availability limits, and provider constraints. Generated speech may mispronounce unusual words. Do not use AI-generated speech to mislead listeners, impersonate another person, or present a synthetic voice as an authentic recording. For workflows involving a real person's recording, read the Consent Policy and use the memorial pages instead.

Writing tips for better TTS

Write for the ear, not just the page. Replace long clauses with direct sentences, spell out uncommon abbreviations, and add punctuation where a speaker would naturally pause. If a line feels too formal, rewrite it as if you were explaining the idea to one person. For video narration, generate each scene separately so you can replace one section without rebuilding the whole track. For educational audio, preview definitions and examples together so the listener hears the context in one pass.

What this page is not

This text-to-speech page is not a celebrity voice tool, not a phone-call impersonation product, and not a way to bypass consent. It is a draft and preview workflow for text you are allowed to use. If a project depends on another person's real voice, switch to the memorial and consent materials instead of trying to force that use case into a general TTS page.

Review checklist before sharing

Before sharing AI-generated speech, confirm that the script is accurate, the speaker is not presented as a real person without permission, and any required disclosure is added near the audio or video. Keep the original script with your project files so you can explain what was generated later. If the audio will be used in an advertisement, public tutorial, sponsored post, or sensitive topic, review the wording with the same care you would apply to a human-recorded voiceover.