Offline text to speech with natural voices
Type or paste text, pick a voice and save natural-sounding speech as an audio file, without an internet service.
Windows · macOS · Linux
Text to speech in aTube Catcher uses Piper, an open-source speech engine that runs on your computer. Your text isn't sent to an online service.
Choose from the Piper voice catalog, with male, female and multi-speaker voices in many languages, and search the voice list to find one.
Text-to-speech options
- Full Piper voice catalog, with voice search Pro
- Male, female and multi-speaker voices Pro
- Save the speech as a WAV file Pro
How to turn text into speech
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Open the text-to-speech tool
In the Video Converter, choose the text-to-speech tool.
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Enter your text
Type or paste the text you want spoken.
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Choose a voice
Search the voice list and pick a voice. Multi-speaker voices let you pick a speaker.
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Generate the audio
Start the job. The speech is saved as a WAV file in your output folder.
Platforms and limits
- Windows, macOS and Linux.
- The first time you use the tool, the Piper engine is installed. Each voice model (about 25–60 MB) is downloaded the first time you use it and then kept on your computer.
- Text to speech is a Pro feature.
Frequently asked questions
Does text to speech work offline?
Yes. Piper runs on your computer. An internet connection is only needed once, to download the engine and each voice you use.
Is text to speech free?
No. Text to speech is part of aTube Catcher Pro.
Which file format does it create?
A WAV audio file. You can convert it to MP3 or another format with the Video Converter.
Related features
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