Free tool
Paste anything you would rather hear than read. Eleven real voices, the speed you want, and a file you keep — free, and without an account.
Voice
Warm, conversational — feels like a podcast host.
Speed
You pasted a paragraph, something flat and metallic read it back, and you closed the tab having learned the wrong lesson — that narration sounds like that.
It doesn’t. It sounds like the eleven voices above, which are the same ones our paying customers put on whole books. Nothing is held back for an upgrade. The limit here is length, not quality.
Most free converters will play your audio and then quietly keep the download. That withheld button is usually the entire business model.
Yours downloads every time. Put it in a podcast app, take it on a plane, play it on a run with the tab long closed. Nothing you paste is stored on our side.
Drop in whatever you would rather hear than read — an article, a chapter, a brief you have reread three times without absorbing. Up to 300 words a month, free, with no account.
Eleven voices, from Coral's podcast warmth to Onyx's lecture-hall gravity. Set playback speed between 0.75x and 1.5x while you are there.
The audio plays in the page and downloads as a file you own. Play it in any podcast app, offline, with the tab long closed. No watermark, no card, nothing stored.
Forty pages due Thursday, and a commute you are currently spending on nothing. The chapter goes in your ears on the walk instead of waiting for an evening that never arrives.
For a lot of readers with ADHD or dyslexia the same words land perfectly well through headphones. The page was the obstacle, not the material.
The saved reports, the long-form you bookmarked, the forty-page PDF you have moved between three laptops. Listening is the only way those hours come back.
Nothing exposes a clumsy sentence like having it read back at you. Authors use this to proof a paragraph before the chapter, and the chapter before the editor.
All four hit the same wall eventually. Three hundred words is a paragraph, and the thing you actually cannot finish is a book — which is what the rest of Audionarrator is for.
| Browser read-aloud | Free converters | Audionarrator | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voice | The system robot voice | A demo voice, good ones paywalled | All eleven we sell |
| Keep the file | No | Usually the upgrade | Every conversion |
| Listen offline | No | No | Yes |
| A whole book | No | No | Chapter by chapter |
Paste the text into the converter above, pick a voice, and press convert. The audio plays in your browser and downloads as a file you keep. No account, no install, no watermark. For a document rather than a passage — a PDF, DOCX or EPUB — Audionarrator converts the whole file into a chapter-by-chapter audiobook instead.
Yes, 300 words a month with no signup, using the same voices as the paid product rather than a downgraded demo voice. Past that, a free account adds 5,000 words plus your first chapter free at any length up to 15,000 words. Paid plans start at $9 a month for 50,000 words.
Yes. Every conversion produces a downloadable audio file that plays in any music or podcast app, offline, with no link back to us. Plenty of free converters play the audio and withhold the file — that is usually the thing they are selling.
In practice, nothing — text to speech, text to voice and text to audio all describe software reading written words aloud. The distinction that matters is real-time versus converted. A screen reader speaks as you scroll and leaves nothing behind. A converter gives you a file you can keep, replay, speed up, and listen to offline.
For articles and general reading, Coral and Nova are clearest. For narrative writing, Ballad and Fable carry expression better. Onyx suits dense reference material where you want gravity. Every voice is available on every plan including free — we limit words, never voices.
Not with this converter, which is built for passages. Upload the file to Audionarrator instead: it detects chapter structure, skips the table of contents and front matter, and generates audio chapter by chapter so you convert only what you need. Equations, figures and tables are skipped by design, because read aloud they are noise rather than knowledge.
No. What you paste is converted and discarded — not saved to an account, not used for training, not retained after the request. That is also why the word counter lives in your browser rather than on our servers.
Same eleven voices, on the 600-page textbook nobody recorded. Chapter-aware, resumable across devices, downloadable as MP3s. Your first chapter is free at any length — no card.