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    AI Text to Speech Generator

    Hear any English text read aloud in a natural voice, perfect for listening and shadowing practice.

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    How it works

    1. 1

      Paste a sentence or short paragraph: vocabulary examples, essay sentences, tricky phrases.

    2. 2

      Pick a voice and speed; “slow” is the shadowing setting.

    3. 3

      Listen once for meaning, once for stress and rhythm.

    4. 4

      Then shadow: play again and speak along, matching the timing as closely as you can.

    Good to know

    Shadowing in three minutes a day

    Shadowing (speaking simultaneously with a model voice, a beat behind it) is one of the best-evidenced pronunciation techniques there is: it trains stress, rhythm, and intonation as one motor skill instead of three concepts. Short material at slow speed is exactly right for it, which is why this tool caps input at a paragraph and offers a slow mode. Three minutes daily with sentences you actually need beats an occasional hour of passive listening.

    Hearing your own writing

    A less obvious use: paste your own essay sentences. Clunky rhythm you can't see on the page is instantly audible: if the voice sounds breathless, your sentence is overloaded; if it sounds flat, the structure is monotonous. Writers of every level edit better by ear, and this gives learners the same feedback loop.

    Questions

    Why is the limit 600 characters?
    Audio generation genuinely costs more to run than text tools, and short passages are what the tool's core uses (shadowing and example-hearing) actually need. The daily TTS allowance is separate from your text-tool allowance, so generating audio never eats your essay checks.
    Which voice and speed should I choose for IELTS practice?
    Rotate voices. The real Listening test mixes accents and genders, so training on one voice builds a fragile ear. Use slow speed for shadowing new material, natural speed for testing comprehension, and brisk occasionally to make natural feel easy.
    Can I download the audio?
    The player streams the generated clip in your browser for immediate practice. For model audio of every English sound, in British and American English, the pronunciation pages play a recording for each sound and its example words.
    Does it handle non-English text?
    It's tuned for English. The practice use cases it's built for are English listening and pronunciation. Other languages may render, but quality isn't guaranteed and it's not the intended use.