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Tool 4.3

Text to speech: listen to any text read aloud on your device

Hear any text, or a TXT, PDF or Word file, read aloud by your device's own voices. Pause, change the speed or jump to any sentence. Nothing is uploaded.

Runs on your deviceRuns entirely in your browser: nothing you type or upload leaves your device.

How to use it

  1. Paste or type the text, or drop a TXT, PDF or Word (.docx) file.
  2. Pick a voice and a speed (from `0.5×` to `2.0×`), then press Play.
  3. Follow the highlighted sentence. Tap any sentence to jump there, or use Pause and Resume.

When listening beats reading

Hearing your own writing is a good way to proofread it: a missing word or a clumsy sentence that your eyes skip over sounds wrong right away. Listening also helps with long texts you'd rather not read on a small screen, like a lease, a class reading or a guide, and with tired eyes, low vision or dyslexia.

It's handy for language too. Paste a sentence in English or Spanish to hear how it sounds, or read a speech or a voice-message script aloud to check how long it takes.

Picking a voice: an example

The voices come from your device, so the list changes from one to another: Windows has voices like Microsoft Sabina (Spanish, Mexico) or Microsoft Zira (English, US), Android uses the phone's speech engine, and iPhones and Macs use their own. The tool guesses the language of your text and puts matching voices first.

Say you paste the first paragraph of a lease, which starts: “El arrendatario pagará el canon dentro de los cinco primeros días de cada mes.” Spanish voices appear at the top. Press Play and the first sentence lights up while the line below says “Sentence 1 of 6”. Move the speed to 1.2× and it continues faster from that sentence. Tap the fourth sentence and it jumps there.

Chrome and Edge on computers can also offer voices marked “online”, from Google or Microsoft. Some sound more natural, but they send your text to that company to be spoken, so they stay hidden unless you tick the box to show them.

Numbers, links and mixed languages

Each voice reads numbers, dates and abbreviations the way its language does, so the same 3.5 or 10/11/2026 can come out differently from one voice to another. A voice in the wrong language mangles words, so if your text mixes English and Spanish, pick the voice of the language most of it is in.

Web addresses, email addresses and emoji are read out character by character or by name, which gets tiring in a long text. Delete them first if you only want to hear the words. The text is read one sentence at a time, so a very long document works fine; it just takes as long as reading it aloud would.

FAQ

Is my text sent anywhere?

Not with your device's own voices: the text is read on your phone or computer. Only the voices marked “online”, which you have to turn on, send it to Google, Microsoft or Apple.

Can I download the audio as an MP3?

No. Browsers let a page play their voices but not record them, so there's no audio file to save.

Why don't I see Spanish (or English) voices?

Your device doesn't have one installed. Add the language in your system's text-to-speech or spoken content settings, then reload this page.

Does it read PDF and Word files?

It reads TXT files, PDFs that contain text and Word `.docx` files. A scanned PDF is a picture of the pages, so it has no text to read, and old `.doc` files aren't supported. Columns and tables in a PDF may come out in an odd order.

Why does it stop when I lock my phone?

Some phones pause speech when the screen locks or the browser goes to the background. Keep the screen on while you listen, and press Resume to continue from the same sentence.

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