PocketPlay
中文
Text to Speech
Read any text aloud with the voices installed on your device — pick a voice, set speed and pitch, and follow the highlighted sentence.
Speech synthesis is not available here
Your browser does not expose the Web Speech synthesis API, so it cannot read text aloud. Every current desktop and mobile browser normally does.
Text
Follow along
Click any sentence above to start reading from there.
Voice
Saving the audio
The Web Speech API plays audio through your speakers but never hands the page an audio file, so there is no honest “download MP3” button to offer. The practical way round it is to record the playback: open the voice recorder in a second tab, start recording, come back and press Read aloud. On a computer you can record the tab's own audio with the screen recorder for a cleaner result than a microphone gives.
How to read text aloud
- Paste your text into the box — an article, a script, an essay you are proofreading.
- Pick a voice that matches the language of the text. An English voice reading Chinese (or the other way round) produces nonsense.
- Press Read aloud. The current sentence is highlighted as it is spoken; click any sentence to jump there.
FAQ
Why can I not download the audio?
Because the browser never gives the page the sound it produces — speechSynthesis writes straight to your speakers. Any site with a “download MP3” button is sending your text to a server-side engine instead. To keep a copy locally, record the playback with the voice recorder or the screen recorder.
Where do the voices come from?
From your operating system, not from this site. macOS and iOS ship a large set (including extra ones you can add in Accessibility settings), Windows has several per installed language, and Android depends on Google Text-to-Speech. That is why the list looks different on each device.
Why does a long text stop halfway?
Some browsers cut off a single very long utterance. This tool works around that by splitting the text into sentences and speaking them one after another, which also makes the follow-along highlight and the jump-to-sentence clicks possible.