31 languages

One model speaks all of them. Here they are, with the things actually worth knowing before you write the text.

How long will my text take?

The “chars/s” column is computed from recordings this site has already made — how many characters of that language fit into one second of speech, on average. Divide the length of your text by that number and you get the approximate length of the audio. For example 600 characters of English ≈ 46 seconds, while the same 600 characters of Japanese ≈ 90, because the script is denser.

English · English

13.0
chars/s

Acronyms read letter by letter need spaces: N A S A. Contractions ("don't", "we'll") are read naturally, so keep them if you want a spoken feel.

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Български · Bulgarian

13.1
chars/s

Write dates and phone numbers as words when the listener has to copy them down; digits are read faster but grouped by the model.

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Deutsch · German

11.2
chars/s

Long compounds are read as one word. If a compound comes out wrong, a hyphen at the seam usually fixes it: Donau-Dampfschiff.

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Français · French

10.1
chars/s

Keep the accents — é, è and ê are three different vowels. Punctuation decides where the liaison falls.

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Español · Spanish

13.0
chars/s

Keep ñ and the accents; opening ¿ and ¡ tell the model the melody starts as a question or an exclamation.

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Italiano · Italian

7.5
chars/s

Double consonants change the word — "nono" and "nonno" are not the same. Do not simplify them.

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Português · Portuguese

12.8
chars/s

Nasal marks (ã, õ) and the cedilla change the sound completely; ASCII substitutes will not do.

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Русский · Russian

13.1
chars/s

Write ё where the word needs it — "все" and "всё" are different words and are read differently.

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Українська · Ukrainian

14.0
chars/s

ї, є and ґ are separate letters; substituting the Russian equivalents changes the pronunciation.

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Polski · Polish

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ł, ą, ę, ż, ź and ś are not decorations — the ASCII versions are different words.

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Čeština · Czech

12.5
chars/s

Keep the háček: ř has no substitute and a word without it will be read wrong.

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Slovenčina · Slovak

no data yet

Long vowels (á, í, ú) and ľ carry meaning; dropping them shortens the wrong syllable.

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Română · Romanian

no data yet

Use ș and ț with the comma below, not the Turkish ş and ţ with the cedilla — they are different characters.

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Magyar · Hungarian

10.4
chars/s

ő and ű are long vowels and distinguish words from ö and ü. Keep them exactly.

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Hrvatski · Croatian

11.6
chars/s

č, ć, dž, š and ž are five distinct sounds; the plain letters read as something else.

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Slovenščina · Slovenian

no data yet

Keep č, š and ž; without them the model reads a different word.

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Nederlands · Dutch

11.5
chars/s

“ij” behaves as one letter. Long compounds read best when written as one word, as in normal Dutch.

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Dansk · Danish

no data yet

Keep æ, ø and å — they are letters of the alphabet, not accented versions of a, o and aa.

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Svenska · Swedish

12.0
chars/s

å, ä and ö are separate letters; “a” instead of “å” is simply another word.

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Suomi · Finnish

no data yet

Double vowels and double consonants mark length and change meaning: “tuli”, “tuuli”, “tulli”.

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Eesti · Estonian

no data yet

Estonian has three degrees of length; write the doubled letters exactly as in the dictionary.

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Latviešu · Latvian

no data yet

The macrons (ā, ē, ī, ū) mark long vowels and are not optional.

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Lietuvių · Lithuanian

no data yet

ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū and ž each change the word; keep them all.

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Ελληνικά · Greek

no data yet

The tonos marks the stressed syllable. Greek without accents is read with the wrong stress.

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Türkçe · Turkish

9.5
chars/s

The dotted and dotless i (i / ı, İ / I) are four different letters. Copy them exactly.

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العربية · Arabic

10.1
chars/s

Diacritics (tashkeel) resolve words that share the same consonants; add them where the meaning is ambiguous.

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हिन्दी · Hindi

14.3
chars/s

Write in Devanagari. Latin transliteration is read as English letters, not as Hindi.

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Indonesia · Indonesian

no data yet

Indonesian spelling is close to its pronunciation, so plain text usually needs no fixing.

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Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese

11.2
chars/s

The tone marks are mandatory — the same syllable with a different tone is a different word.

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日本語 · Japanese

6.6
chars/s

For names and rare kanji, write the reading in kana. A kanji can have several readings and the model has to pick one.

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한국어 · Korean

11.5
chars/s

Hangul is read directly. Korean has two number systems, so write numbers out when the counting word matters.

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One thing that holds for all of them

Diacritics are not decoration. Every language above has at least one mark whose removal turns a word into a different word — and the model reads what it sees, not what you meant. If you paste text from somewhere that stripped the accents and tails, put them back before you press the button.

And second: the language is chosen separately from the voice. All ten voices speak all 31 languages, so pick the voice you like and change only the language.

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