Text to speech online. Paste, pick, press Generate.

You do not need to learn anything to use it. The Studio is one page, and the whole job is three moves. Write your text, choose a voice, press the button.

1. 1

   Paste or type your script

   Click into the script box and paste your text. The counter under it shows your characters and words.

   

2. 2

   Pick a voice

   Use the All, Female and Male filters, press the play arrow on a voice to hear it, then select it. The Studio shows how big each voice’s download is.

   

3. 3

   Press Generate speech

   Your browser makes the audio. When it is ready it appears in your History, where you can play it and download it as MP3 or WAV.

The first time you use a voice, Clonylab downloads its files and your browser keeps them. Later voice-overs with the same voice start straight away.

Plain text sounds fine. If you want it to sound better, you have two kinds of controls. Sliders change the whole script. Tags change one part of it.

The buttons above the script box insert the tags for you. A tag that Clonylab does not know is read aloud as plain text, so a note like [sic] will not break anything. More in the text to speech with pauses page.

There are 38 standard voices, all English. 28 have a US accent and 10 a UK accent. Listen to a few before you decide, because the same script feels different in different voices.

Want to hear them all before you sign up? The standard voices page has a sample of every voice. For accents, see British text to speech and American text to speech.

Most online text to speech tools send your text to a server and send audio back. Clonylab runs the voice in your browser. That has three effects you can feel.

• Your text stays with you. Scripts, audio and history are processed and stored in your browser, not uploaded.
• No queue. Your own browser does the work, so you are not waiting behind other people.
• You can run many at once. Every voice-over you start is its own task, and you can keep writing while the others finish.

Speed depends on your computer. Clonylab uses your graphics card when it passes a one-time test and your processor otherwise, and the badge at the top of the app shows which one is in use.

If you want the full list of what is free, read free text to speech. If you want to know about licences for business use, see text to speech for commercial use.

If you like to know what you are in for, this is what a first session looks like.

On the free plan, keep each script to 150 characters or fewer. The counter turns into a reminder when you reach the limit.

Every voice-over you start becomes its own task that runs in your browser in the background. The Generate button is free again straight away, so you can queue the next script. You can also move between the Studio, Voices and Clone pages while tasks keep running.

• Watch every task. Each has its own progress, so you always know what is ready.
• Finished work saves itself. Completed voice-overs land in your History.
• Close nothing in the middle. Keep the tab open until tasks finish, because the audio is made in your browser.

Still stuck? Use the chat button, or write to us from the contact page. It helps to tell us which voice you used and your browser.

• Use a recent browser. Clonylab runs in your browser, so an up-to-date one helps.
• Keep the tab open while it works. The audio is made in your browser.
• Start with one voice. Downloading many voices at once takes longer.
• Watch the badge at the top. It shows whether your graphics card or your processor is in use.

• Direct the reading with the AI voiceover generator.
• Pick a voice with the AI voice generator.
• Keep your files with text to speech MP3.

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