Text to speech, online and free

Paste an article, a draft, or a paragraph you want to proofread, choose one of your system's voices, and press play. Text-to-speech is a great way to catch awkward sentences, give your eyes a rest, learn pronunciation, or turn notes into something you can listen to. The speed and pitch controls let you slow things down for clarity or speed them up to skim.

This tool uses the Web Speech Synthesis API, so the voices come from your operating system and the audio is generated locally. Nothing you type is sent to a server. The available voices depend on your OS and browser — install more system voices to expand the list. It's the same respect for your words that runs through Openbroca, which turns your speech into polished writing in any Mac app.

Text-to-speech reads words out; Openbroca does the reverse and far more — it turns yourspeech into polished writing and inserts it where your cursor is in any Mac app you're using, from editors and browsers to chat and the terminal. Try the speech-to-text tool to see it in the browser, or see what Openbroca does for the real thing.