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Japanese Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Japanese text to speech for scripts in kanji and kana: type or paste Japanese text, pick a voice and press Play.
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Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. If a kanji in a name or rare word has more than one reading, write that word in hiragana or katakana.
24 voices
Japanese text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 24 Japanese voices, 12 male and 12 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Japanese mixes three scripts: kanji for most nouns and verb stems, hiragana for grammar and endings, and katakana for loanwords such as コーヒー. Write as a Japanese reader expects, with no spaces between words, 、 for a short break and 。 to end a sentence. Many kanji have more than one reading. 今日 is usually きょう (today) but こんにち in formal phrases, and 一日 can be いちにち (one day) or ついたち (the first of the month).
Names are the hardest part. 中田 can be Nakata or Nakada, and many place names have readings found nowhere else. Write a name in kana when its reading matters, or give it a fixed reading in the pronunciation dictionary so it stays the same across the project.
Numbers change sound with the counter after them: 一本 is いっぽん, 三本 is さんぼん and 六本 is ろっぽん. Some dates and ages are irregular too, so 20日 (はつか) and 20歳 (はたち) are worth a listen. Horizontal text usually uses Arabic numerals, and a year may follow the Western calendar or the era name, as in 令和8年. Use です and ます forms for narration, and the extra-polite forms such as ございます and いたします for shop and station announcements.
What people make with Japanese voice over
In-store and venue announcements
Write polite keigo messages for a supermarket, a shopping centre or an event hall, and change the time or the featured product each week.
Video narration
Voice cooking videos, product reviews and explainers for Japanese viewers, keeping the same voice across a whole channel.
Company training and manuals
Turn onboarding material, safety procedures and compliance training into narration, with the same desu-masu tone in every module.
Listening practice for learners
Turn vocabulary lists and textbook dialogues into audio, giving each speaker in a conversation a male or a female voice.
Three steps
How to convert Japanese text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Japanese 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 Japanese 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. Japanese has 12 male and 12 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.
You can, but write the script in normal Japanese instead. Romaji hides which word you mean: hashi could be 橋 (bridge), 箸 (chopsticks) or 端 (edge), and in speech only the pitch tells them apart. Kanji and kana show the voice which word is meant. Keep romaji for brand names, and preview any line that contains it.
Preview the line first. If a kanji gets the wrong reading, write that word in hiragana, or reword the sentence so the meaning is clear. For a name or a term that appears again and again, set its reading once in the studio's pronunciation dictionary[[C067]], and every line that uses it is read the same way.
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