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Irish Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Irish text to speech for the Irish language, Gaeilge: type or paste your script as Gaeilge, then press Play to hear it read.
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Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Type lenition with an h, as in bh and ch, rather than the dot used in older Gaelic type, and keep every síneadh fada.
2 voices
Irish text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 2 Irish voices, 1 male and 1 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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The síneadh fada marks a long vowel, and leaving it out can change the word. Fear is a man and féar is grass; sean means old, while Seán is a name. Irish spelling also follows the rule caol le caol, leathan le leathan: the vowels on each side of a consonant agree, and many of them only show whether the consonant is broad or slender.
Initial mutations change the first sound of a word, and the voice reads what you write. Séimhiú adds an h, so bean becomes an bhean, with a v or w sound. Urú adds a letter in front, as in i nGaillimh and ár bpáistí, and the added letter is the one you hear. Keep these exactly as they are in names and place names. Numbers with nouns mutate too, as in dhá bhád and trí bhosca, so write them in words.
Written Irish follows An Caighdeán Oifigiúil, but speakers in Connacht, Munster and Ulster say many words differently. Munster Irish, for example, often stresses a long vowel later in the word. Preview a few lines and ask a speaker from your audience's region if the accent matters. For a place or family name that comes out wrongly, set the reading once in the pronunciation dictionary.
What people make with Irish voice over
Gaelscoil and Gaeltacht lessons
Teachers in Irish-medium schools and summer colleges turn reading passages and vocabulary lists into audio that pupils can replay at home.
Oral exam practice
Students preparing for the Junior Cycle or Leaving Certificate oral listen to model answers and picture-sequence descriptions read aloud.
Bilingual notices and explainers
Public bodies, councils and community groups that publish in Irish and English voice the Irish version of announcements and short explainer videos.
Seachtain na Gaeilge content
Workplaces, clubs and libraries make short spoken greetings and quizzes for the Irish language festival every March.
Three steps
How to convert Irish text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Irish 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 Irish 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. Irish 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.
This page is for the Irish language, also called Gaeilge or Irish Gaelic. The voices read scripts written in Irish. If you want English spoken with an Irish accent, for a podcast intro or an advert aimed at Ireland, open the Irish English page in the list above. That page covers English voices from Ireland, not Gaeilge.
Listen to the samples on the voice cards before you decide. Irish has three main dialects, from Connacht, Munster and Ulster, and the written standard sits between them. A learner audience usually accepts any clear voice. For a Gaeltacht audience in Donegal, Connemara or Kerry, ask a local speaker to check a preview, since vowels and stress differ by region.
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