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TTSReader

Summary

TTSReader is a browser text-to-speech reader that turns pasted text, PDFs, DOCX files, ebooks and web pages into speech. It exports finished MP3 or WAV voice-overs using basic browser voices or metered premium AI voices.

From
Freethen $10.99 monthly · $8.25 billed annually, 25% less
Open source
No
API
PartlyPay-As-You-Go
Best for
Bloggers, authors, students and schools who need long documents read aloud or exported

What we checked

Pages last read
Price on its site
Free planFrom its pricing page

TTSReader price and terms

Terms

Free plan
YesYes
The terms in full

Unlimited listening with the non-premium browser and OS voices on both players, plus 5k characters total of premium AI voices; personal use or testing only, and the audio may not be published or sold.

Sign up without sales
YesYes

What needs a higher plan

Premium
Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)
Pay-As-You-Go
API

For AI agents

API
PartlyPay-As-You-Go
TTSReader's pricing page

Pricing page, captured

ttsreader.com/docs/support/pricing, checked

What we checked on TTSReader

YesPartlyNo

What an hour of speech costsYes

Cost for 2 hours a month

$3.33 a month on Pay-as-you-go 1M for 2 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words Pay-as-you-go 10M ($0) includes 0 credits; these hours need 104000, and past the allowance speech past it cannot be made.

1M chars: $32

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)

$10.99 a month on Premium for 10 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words Pay-as-you-go 10M ($0) includes 0 credits; these hours need 520000, and past the allowance speech past it cannot be made.

Monthly subscription: $10.99 per month.

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What an hour of speech costsNo

Promotion and regular price

none - the first figure on the pricing page is the regular month-to-month rate of $10.99, with the $99 annual license quoted separately as $8.25 a month; no introductory or promotional price is published

On the page: Plans > 2. Premium Plan > Pricing

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What an hour of speech costsYes

What the price counts

Premium AI voices are metered in characters: 1M characters a month on Premium, while the browser and OS non-premium voices stay unlimited on every plan

Premium voices: 1M (1 million) chars per month.

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Voices that use more

Only the premium AI voices draw on the character allowance; the basic browser and OS voices are unlimited on all plans, so voice choice decides whether you spend anything at all

Non premium voices: unlimited. This is both for the legacy player and the new player.

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Past your allowance

Past the monthly characters you can buy one-time pay-as-you-go credit packs, or wait for the reset on the first of the month, or fall back to the free voices

a. 200k characters at 10 USD. b. 1 million characters at 32 USD. c. 10 million characters at 300 USD.

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What an hour of speech costsPartly

Unused credits

Purchased pay-as-you-go credits last a year and the vendor says unused credits carry over, but a subscription's monthly allowance is reset to 1M characters each cycle rather than accumulating

Credits are reset on the first (1st) of every month. Total Credits are reset to 1 million characters.

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Commercial use

Publishing or selling the audio, and any business use, requires a paid plan; the free plan's output explicitly may not be published or sold

Generated audio under the free plan is not allowed for publishing or selling.

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The voicesYes

Stock voices

The vendor advertises more than 600 voices drawn from several engines, and the API additionally accepts any Azure neural voice by its display name

600+ voices, multilingual (any supported language).

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The voicesYes

Languages

The release notes for the player version that opened free unlimited voices claim support for more than 90 languages and accents, major and minor

We now support 90+ languages and accents in the world, including all the major languages and many minor ones.

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The voicesYes

Emotion, pace and emphasis

Reading speed is set per voice and inline control codes change language, voice and rate mid-script, with pauses placed in milliseconds

You may add pauses by inserting the following text: {{pause:1000}} (with 2 curly brackets on each side) in the text.

ttsreader.com/docs/guides/voiceoverChecked

The voicesYes

Pronunciation fixes

A built-in pronunciation dictionary maps a term to a spoken form, applies it automatically at synthesis and persists across sessions for every later document

TTSReader now includes a Pronunciation Dictionary - a built-in feature that lets users define custom word-to-pronunciation mappings.

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The voicesYes

Long scripts and chapters

Whole PDFs, DOCX files and EPUB ebooks load as documents, play chapter by chapter and can be rendered to audio in the cloud as one job

Open any EPUB with TTSReader and it becomes a narrated book, chapters and all.

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The voicesYes

Several speakers

Inline setter codes switch voices mid-script, so a two-person dialogue or two-host script renders as one audio file without any editing afterwards

the TTS engine will automatically switch between the voices for Davis and Nova, creating a natural-sounding dialogue

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The voicesYes

Audio you get

One-click export produces MP3 or WAV files server-side, and the API takes a quality parameter of 48kHz/192kbps or a 24kHz default

Generate MP3 / WAV files from text - super fast with a single click.

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Cloning a voiceNo

Your voice trains their models

The privacy policy states flatly that neither TTSReader nor its voice subcontractors train on your text or generated speech, so there is nothing to opt out of

We do not train on your texts or generated speech, and we do not allow our subcontractors to train on it either.

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Working with itNo

Team seats

Premium is explicitly one seat per account and several users need one license each, or pay-as-you-go credits instead; no shared workspace or per-seat team price is published

Single seat user license - not for multiple users. Multiple users require multiple licenses - 1 for each user

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Working with itPartly

API

The comparison table marks API and automation support only on the credits-based Pay-As-You-Go plan; Free, Premium and Premium+ all carry a cross for it

On the page: Comparison Table, API / Automation Support row

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Working with itYes

API price

The API bills the same prepaid character credits, and the API page quotes 3 million characters for $39 while the pricing page lists packs of 200k for $10, 1M for $32 and 10M for $300

you can purchase 3 Miliion characters from TTSReader, for just $39 - whereas buying the same from Azure would cost you $45

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Working with itYes

Platforms

web, ios, android - the player runs in the browser, and native iPhone and Android apps shipped with CarPlay and Android Auto; no standalone Windows or Mac application is offered

A whole new TTSReader APP is now available, for iOS & Android - both native with CarPlay & AndroidAuto support.

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Working with itYes

Works inside

A Chrome and Edge extension reads any page you open and a one-line script drops the player into your own website; no Canva, Adobe or WordPress plugin is named

We are excited to launch the new TTSReader browser extension. Compatible with Chrome and Edge.

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Labelling and rightsYes

Who owns the audio

You keep full rights to the generated audio and may keep using and selling it after the license lapses, subject to the publishable-voice rule

You hold the full rights to the generated audio, even after the license expires

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Free plan or trial

A standing free plan gives unlimited listening with the basic browser voices plus a one-off 5k characters of premium AI voices for testing, personal use only

New AI premium voices are limited to 5k chars free. That may change from time to time.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpNo

What the free plan leaves on your audio

No watermark or credit is mentioned anywhere, but the free plan forbids publishing or selling the audio and reserves it for single personal use or testing

No bots, automations, API or any commercial use.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Still sold

live - the service is selling plans today, shipped new native mobile apps in October 2026 and updated its player to a version carrying human-narrated audiobooks

3.15 brings built-in HUMAN READ AUDIOBOOKS!! Built on top of 3.14's Discover & Library!!! Plus - full sync across devices. Published first 2026-10-22

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Sign up without a sales call

Premium and credit packs are bought inside the player itself, with no sales contact required; larger quotas than the published plans are the only email case

Purchase on the new player

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Contract and cancelling

Monthly at $10.99 or a yearly license at $99, and the subscription is canceled yourself in the player's Manage Premium panel, effective immediately

Click on “Cancel Subscription”. Be ware it is effective immediately and cannot be undone.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Support

Email, a Discord community shared with the developers, and GitHub issues and discussions; premium buyers get a dedicated support form, and no business hours are published

Join our growing community space on Discord, for discussions, feedback, questions and more. Shared space with our own developers & owners.

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