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DocuVocal

Text to Speech

Paste an article, an email or your notes and listen straight away. No account, no limits on how often you use it.

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Want to keep it?

Turn this book into an audiobook you can download: an M4B with chapters, MP3 files, or a feed for your podcast app. The DocuVocal Library is on its way, with chapters you can edit and fair per-book pricing.

Coming soon

How it works

  1. 1

    Paste or type your text in the box.

  2. 2

    Choose your browser voice or the natural voice.

  3. 3

    Press play and follow the highlighted sentence.

Listen to anything you can copy

Articles, newsletters, emails, lecture notes and long chat threads are all easier to get through when you can listen. Paste the text, press play, and carry on with something else. Blank lines become paragraph breaks and short title lines are treated as headings, so you can skip around with the paragraph buttons.

A natural voice in your browser

Built-in computer voices can sound flat over long passages. The DocuVocal natural voice is a modern AI voice that you download once; after that it starts quickly every time you visit. Change the speed from 0.5× to 3× and the reading continues from the same sentence.

Have a whole file instead?

Use the PDF, EPUB or Word readers instead of copying text out of a document. They clean up page numbers and headers for you and keep the document headings.

Ways people use it

Language learners paste a paragraph and play it slowly to hear how it should sound. Writers paste a draft to hear its rhythm before publishing. Busy readers queue up a long article and listen while cooking or tidying. Students paste lecture notes and replay the tricky parts at a slower speed. Because each sentence is highlighted, it is easy to stop, copy a line and come back to it later.

Questions

Is this text to speech tool really free?

Yes. There is no account, no trial and no card. Each paste can be up to about 125,000 characters, roughly fifty printed pages.

Which languages are supported?

The natural voice currently speaks English with American and British accents. Your browser voices may cover more languages, depending on your device.

Can I change the voice speed while it is reading?

Yes. Pick a new speed and DocuVocal restarts the current sentence at that speed, so you never lose your place. Speeds run from half speed up to three times normal.

Can I turn long text into an audiobook to listen later?

That is coming with the DocuVocal Library: upload a long document or book and get an audiobook you keep, with chapters, ready for your podcast or audiobook app. Join early access to try it first.