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Canadian Accent Generator and Text to Speech Voices
Write or paste a script into this Canadian accent generator, then press Play to hear a Canadian narrator.
Hear it in Canadian English
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Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Spell the Canadian way: colour and centre with British endings, but organize and realize with a z.
2 voices
Canadian English text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 2 Canadian English voices, 1 male and 1 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Canadian spelling sits between American and British. Canadians write colour, honour, centre, cheque and travelled, yet most use organize with a z. The last letter of the alphabet is zed, as in Britain. Dates turn up in several formats, so write them out in words. A voice reads color and colour the same way, so spelling matters most for captions and on-screen text.
Local words make a script sound Canadian: washroom for restroom, toque for a knitted winter hat, loonie and toonie for the one- and two-dollar coins, and a two-four for a case of beer. A double-double is a coffee with two creams and two sugars. Use metric units, such as kilometres and degrees Celsius, because that is what Canadian road signs and forecasts show.
Place names from French and Indigenous languages need a listen first. Preview Saskatoon, Mississauga, Gatineau and Trois-Rivières, and northern names like Nunavut or Iqaluit. If a voice stresses one wrongly, set its reading once in the pronunciation dictionary. For French-speaking Quebec, a script written in French is the better fit.
Three steps
How to convert Canadian English text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Canadian English text, or import a .txt, .docx or .pdf file up to 500KB, or a web page by URL.
Pick a voice and shape the delivery
Play the samples, choose a voice, add pauses where the listener needs a breath, and set how any word is read with the pronunciation dictionary.
Generate and download
Export an MP3, a voice and music mix, or SRT captions.
What's free
Free plan
Everything you need to hear your script
- The Free plan costs $0.
- Every voice is included.
- Preview voices as often as you like.
- A free account gets 2,500 credits once, not every month. That is about 2,500 words of text to speech.
- Download your audio as an MP3.
- The Free plan is for personal and evaluation use. Paid plans add commercial rights.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can play any voice on this page before you sign up. The full library has 1,411 voices across 160 languages and dialects.
Write or import your Canadian English script, choose a voice and press Generate. To download the MP3, create a free account: downloads work on the Free plan. You can also export a voice and music mix or SRT captions.
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and includes every voice, with a one-time allowance of 2,500 credits, about 2,500 words. It is for personal and evaluation use.
Yes. Canadian English has 1 male and 1 female voices. Use the gender filter above the voice list and try a few with your own first line.
Yes, on a paid plan: paid plans include commercial rights, and the Free plan is for personal and evaluation use only. Starter costs $5 for the first month, then $19 a month.
Preview the line first. If a number, date or abbreviation comes out wrong, write it the way it should be spoken, or add it to the pronunciation dictionary, which is on every plan. One entry fixes that word across the whole project.
The gaps are small, but Canadians notice them. Many Canadians raise the vowel in words like about and house, which can sound like "a-boat" to American ears. Some say process and sorry with a longer o. Vocabulary differs too, from washroom to toque.
Choose it for messages meant only for Canadians: a provincial government notice, a bank or telecom ad, or training for staff in Toronto or Calgary. Canadians accept American voices, but a home-grown accent shows the message was made in Canada.
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