Sound of Text

Turning typed text into spoken audio you can download is the whole job of Sound of Text, a free online text-to-speech converter.

You paste in your text, pick a language and a voice, and get an audio file back.

The service covers a wide range of languages and voices, so it suits narration for videos, quick voiceovers, or checking how a script sounds out loud.

Developers get an API too, which puts Sound of Text in reach of anyone who wants speech generation inside their own app rather than through a web page.

That is the reason it sits under coding and development.

The catch is the free tier.

Conversions are capped at 500 characters, so longer scripts have to be split into pieces, and there may be other limits on how many conversions or which features you can use.

The speech comes from AI cloud technology, which can make occasional mistakes, so listen to the result before you publish it.

For short clips, it is simple and costs nothing.