Text-to-Speech Studio

Listen to your text read aloud. Select voice, adjust speed and pitch, follow along with sentence highlighting.

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How to Use

1. Enter Your Text — Paste or type the text you want to hear read aloud. Any length works — from a single sentence to an entire article. The tool automatically splits text into sentences for highlighting.
2. Configure Voice Settings — Select a voice from the dropdown (lists all voices installed on your device, grouped by language). Adjust speed (0.5x to 2x) and pitch (0.5 to 2.0) using the sliders.
3. Play and Follow Along — Click Play to start. The current sentence is highlighted as it is spoken. Use Pause/Resume, Skip Forward/Back, or Stop at any time. Keyboard shortcuts: Space (play/pause), Escape (stop), Arrow keys (skip sentences).

About the Text-to-Speech Studio

WritePadPro's Text-to-Speech Studio is a full-featured TTS tool that reads your text aloud using your browser's built-in Web Speech API. Unlike the simple "Read Aloud" button on the homepage editor, this dedicated page provides voice selection, speed and pitch controls, sentence-by-sentence highlighting, skip navigation, and keyboard shortcuts.

Voice Selection

The voice dropdown lists every speech synthesis voice available on your device, grouped by language. This typically includes:

• Windows — Microsoft David (male), Microsoft Zira (female), and language-specific voices
• macOS — Samantha, Alex, and premium voices from System Preferences
• Chrome — Google US English, Google UK English, and voices for many other languages
• iOS/Android — System voices configured in device accessibility settings

Speed and Pitch Control

The speed slider ranges from 0.5x (half speed) to 2.0x (double speed). Half speed is useful for language learners or when processing complex content. Double speed is useful for quickly reviewing familiar content. The pitch slider ranges from 0.5 (deep) to 2.0 (high), allowing you to customize the voice tone to your preference.

Sentence Highlighting

As the TTS engine reads your text, the current sentence is highlighted with a bright background in the text panel. Previously read sentences appear dimmed. This creates a "karaoke-style" reading experience where your eyes follow along with the voice. The panel auto-scrolls to keep the current sentence in view, even for very long texts.

Navigation Controls

Five playback controls: Play (starts from the beginning or resumes from pause), Pause (freezes at current position), Stop (resets to beginning), Previous (jumps to the previous sentence), and Next (skips to the next sentence). All controls also have keyboard shortcuts: Space, Escape, Left Arrow, and Right Arrow.

Use Cases

• Proofreading — Hearing your text read aloud catches errors your eyes miss: missing words, awkward phrasing, and rhythm problems
• Accessibility — People with visual impairments or reading difficulties can consume written content through audio
• Language learning — Hear correct pronunciation at adjustable speed. Select voices in your target language.
• Content review — Listen to blog posts, emails, or presentations before publishing to check tone and flow
• Multitasking — Listen to articles while doing other tasks, like a personal article-to-podcast converter

Web Speech API

This tool uses the SpeechSynthesis API built into modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge). It does not require any external service, subscription, or API key. The quality depends on your device's installed voices — newer operating systems include increasingly natural-sounding voices. On Chrome, Google's online voices provide near-natural quality but require an internet connection.

Privacy

For local/offline voices, your text is processed entirely on your device by the operating system's speech engine. Zero network requests. For online voices (marked "[online]" in the dropdown), the browser sends text to Google or Apple servers for synthesis — this is a browser-level behavior, not controlled by WritePadPro. For maximum privacy, always select a local voice.