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Read aloud Spanish text for study, work and video

People who need to read aloud Spanish text are usually in one of a few situations, and the tool is built for each of them.

Learning and teaching Spanish

Listening while you read is one of the quickest ways to connect spelling to sound. Paste a short reading, slow the pace to 0.8 and follow along. Teachers can make an MP3 of a vocabulary list or a dialogue for students to play at home, which is easier than recording a new file for every class.

Checking your own Spanish writing

Your ears catch what your eyes forgive. A sentence with a missing word, a doubled word or a clumsy agreement sounds wrong when it is read aloud. If you write in Spanish as a second language, listening to a draft before you send it is a cheap way to catch the errors that spell check misses.

Narration for videos and presentations

If you make explainers, tutorials or product videos for a Spanish-speaking audience, you can draft the narration here, listen, adjust the words, and download the track. For narration timed to scenes, the voice over generator splits your script line by line and exports subtitles.

Listening instead of reading

Long articles are easier to follow on a walk. Paste the text, press Listen and carry on with your day. Download the MP3 if you want to play it later with the screen off.

Getting the best result from Spanish text

• Keep the punctuation. The opening marks ¿ and ¡ tell the voice when a question or exclamation begins, so the intonation lands right.
• Write numbers and abbreviations the way you want them said. If a date or a unit sounds odd, spell it out: "veinte por ciento" instead of "20 %".
• Use short sentences. Long run-on sentences are harder to follow in audio. Split them at commas or conjunctions.
• Mark paragraphs with blank lines. Paragraph breaks become longer pauses, which gives the listener time to breathe.
• Choose the variant first. Switch the language menu to Spanish (Mexico) for a Mexican accent, or leave it on Spanish for the general reading.
• Listen before you download. Names, brands and mixed English words can be pronounced in unexpected ways. Respell them phonetically if needed.

What to know about the voices

The voices are synthetic and are not clones of real people. All ten accept Spanish text. Accent quality is not guaranteed to be identical across them, and the Mexican setting is an instruction to the voice rather than a separate recorded voice, so treat the first listen as a test.

Text is sent to our speech provider to render the audio and is not stored by us. The details are in the privacy policy.

Limits

The free plan reads 1,000 characters a day, which is a paragraph or two. For more, see the plans. To work out how long a Spanish script will run before you generate it, try the speech time calculator and enter your own words-per-minute figure.