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Norwegian Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Norwegian text to speech for Bokmål scripts: write or paste your lines, choose a voice and press Play to listen.
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Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Write in Bokmål, not Nynorsk: jeg, ikke and hva rather than eg, ikkje and kva.
19 voices
Norwegian text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 19 Norwegian voices, 7 male and 12 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Norway has two written standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk, and the voices on this page read Bokmål. Most Norwegians write Bokmål, while Nynorsk is used by a minority, mostly in the west. Bokmål itself lets you choose between forms, such as boka or boken and sola or solen. Pick one style and keep it, so the narration does not swing between registers.
Norwegian has two ways to count above twenty. Tjuefem for 25 has been the official form since the 1950s, while femogtjue is the older one that some speakers still use. A figure lets the voice decide, so spell the number out if your audience expects one form. Use a comma for decimals, a space between thousands and a point after the day, as in 17. mai.
Spelling does not show every sound. The t in det and huset is silent, and the kj in kjøre is a soft hiss that no English letter matches. Preview surnames, place names and English words such as gaming or streaming, and fix any that come out wrong in the pronunciation dictionary.
Three steps
How to convert Norwegian text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Norwegian 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 Norwegian 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. Norwegian has 7 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.
They speak Bokmål, so a Bokmål script gives the surest result. They will read Nynorsk text, but words that differ, such as eg, ikkje and kva, may not sound the way a Nynorsk speaker says them. If your audience writes Nynorsk, for a school in Vestland for example, preview every line first.
No. Bokmål grew out of Danish writing, so Danes can read much of it. Spelling and words differ: Norwegian writes hva and tjue where Danish has hvad and tyve, and uses forms like boka that Danish lacks. The sounds differ even more, so use a Norwegian voice for Norwegian listeners.
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