Free text to speech: studio voiceovers from a script
Turn any script into a natural voiceover: writing for the ear, pace and format settings, voice selection, and how to stitch long narration cleanly.
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Modern text-to-speech does not sound robotic — rushed scripts do. The gap between a demo voice and a shipped voiceover is almost entirely in how the script and settings are prepared. This is the checklist we run before every render in free.speech.
Write for the ear
- Short sentences. If a sentence needs a breath, split it.
- Punctuate pauses — commas are micro-pauses, periods are beats.
- Spell tricky terms phonetically: "S-E-O", "kway-zar", "four-K".
- Put numbers in the form you want spoken: "twenty twenty-six", not "2026".
Pick the pace before the voice
Narration sits at 1.0×, ads at 0.9×, explainers at 1.1×. Changing pace after picking a voice is cheaper than re-writing the script — tune speed first, then audition voices against the lines that matter most.
Match the format to the job
- WAV for editing — no compression artifacts while you cut.
- MP3 for delivery and podcast feeds.
- OGG for web players and small embeds.
Stitch long narration without seams
Long scripts should be split at paragraph boundaries and rendered as chunks with the same voice and settings, then stitched. This is exactly what free.audiobook automates — paragraph-aware chunking, one consistent voice, a single download.
Draft scripts inline with the built-in writer, preview the waveform, then export from free.speech. The text-to-audio landing page covers the same pipeline for API-first workflows.