Text-to-speech

Simple

Technology that reads written words out loud.

Standard

Text-to-speech turns written text into spoken audio. It's useful for narration, audiobooks, and accessibility β€” and modern versions sound quite natural.

Detailed

Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizes speech from text. Modern neural TTS produces natural-sounding voices and can narrate content or aid accessibility. Voice cloning (imitating a specific person) requires that person's consent.