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German Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
German text to speech in standard German: type or paste your script, pick a voice and press Play to hear it read aloud.
Hear it in German
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Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Type ä, ö, ü and ß as real letters rather than ae, oe, ue or ss, so the voice can tell Masse from Maße.
41 voices
German text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 41 German voices, 20 male and 21 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Conrad
Marlis
Falko
Amala
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“In the biggest languages, the voices sound nearly human.”
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Review on Capterra , 27 September 2022
German spelling tells the voice how long a vowel is. Maße (measurements) has a long a and Masse (mass) a short one, and the only clue is ß versus ss. Umlauts matter just as much: schon means already, while schön means beautiful. Write ä, ö and ü in full, and fix any text that arrives as ae or oe from an old system.
Long compound nouns are normal German, and words such as Kundenservice or Datenschutzerklärung usually read well. A brand-new compound is clearer with hyphens, as in E-Mail-Adresse. Abbreviations are riskier. A voice may spell out z. B., bzw., ggf. or usw. letter by letter, so write zum Beispiel, beziehungsweise, gegebenenfalls and und so weiter in a script.
German uses a comma for decimals (2,5) and a point for thousands (10.000). An ordinal takes a point too, so am 3. Oktober is read as am dritten Oktober. Preview such dates, because the point can sound like the end of a sentence. English words such as Meeting, Feedback or a product name deserve a listen, and the pronunciation dictionary can set how one is read.
What people make with German voice over
Explainer videos for manufacturers
Narrate product demos and machine instructions for engineering firms, and update one step when a model changes instead of booking a new recording session.
Mandatory staff training
Voice the yearly safety briefing, a data protection course or an onboarding module, with one narrator across every chapter and Sie used throughout.
Advent and Christmas market season
Write in-store and social messages for Advent offers or a Weihnachtsmarkt stall, then swap in next year's dates rather than starting again.
Listen versions of articles
Give readers of a news site or company blog a spoken version of each long article, made from the text you already publish.
Three steps
How to convert German text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste German 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 German 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. German has 20 male and 21 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.
Germany. The voices on this page speak standard German as heard in Germany, the form most courses teach and most national adverts use. Austrian German has its own vowels and everyday words, and Swiss Standard German writes ss where Germany writes ß. For those audiences, open the Austrian or Swiss page in the list above.
Use Sie for banks, insurance, health, public bodies and most business training. Many consumer brands, apps and sports companies now say du, especially to younger listeners. Pick one before you write and keep it through the whole script, including words such as Ihr or dein, so the narrator never changes tone halfway through.
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