The reader that sounds local — and lets you keep the audio. Read along as every
word lights up, pick from 235 voices including
86 with real local accents from the US, UK, Australia,
Canada and beyond, then download your MP3.
235 AI voices
86 regional accents
45 languages
86 regional voices, one library
Real regional accents, on demand
General American is just the beginning. Explore voices with authentic local accents from
the US, UK, Australia, Canada — plus Europe, Latin America, Asia and many more countries
and accents — and preview them right here.
Create a free account to unlock regional voices, longer texts and downloads.
World first · Custom accents on demand
The accent you need doesn't exist? We mint it for you
Describe any voice in plain words — "an older fisherman with a thick Liverpool scouse
accent", "a cheerful Québécois tour guide" — and Woord generates a brand-new,
one-of-a-kind voice in about a minute. It's saved to your account, forever yours to convert with.
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Describe it
Accent, age, mood, personality — write it like you'd brief a casting director.
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We mint it
Our AI designs the voice and locks it in — about 60 seconds, unique to you.
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It's yours
Your custom voice lives in your picker: convert unlimited texts and keep every MP3.
Available on paid plans · every generated voice is exclusive to your account
Studio · Custom Voices
Or bring your own voice
Upload one clean recording and we clone it into a voice that lives in your
account. Narrate a whole catalogue in your own voice without going back to
the booth — or in your brand's voice, once, and keep it consistent forever.
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Record 15–30 seconds
One speaker, no music. A phone in a quiet room is enough.
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Confirm you may use it
It has to be your voice, or a voice you have written permission to clone.
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Use it everywhere
It appears in your voice picker on every converter — and only in yours.
Studio plan · $399/month ·
3 voice slots ·
your clones are private to your account
From text to audio in three steps
No installs, no editing timeline, no learning curve. Paste, pick a voice, press play.
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Add your content
Paste text, share an article URL, or upload a document or image. You can also automate everything with our Text-to-Speech API.
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Choose the perfect voice
235 voices including 86 regional accents across 45 languages — filter by language, gender and accent, from a warm Southern drawl to crisp British English.
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Play, follow along, download
Listen instantly with word-by-word highlighting, tweak the speed, and download your MP3 when it sounds exactly right.
Everything you need to sound great
Built for creators, educators, publishers and teams that turn words into audio every day.
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Regional accents
Go beyond “General American”: US Southern, Texan, New York, British, Australian and Canadian voices — plus many more countries and accents your audience will recognize as their own.
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Read-along highlighting
Our reader lights up every word as it's spoken — perfect for accessibility, language learning and proof-listening your scripts.
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45 languages
Natural voices for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese and many more.
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Full control
Adjust speed and audio profile, or fine-tune pronunciation with the SSML editor.
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MP3 downloads
Own your audio: download high-quality MP3 files and publish them anywhere.
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Documents & images
Convert PDFs, Word docs, ebooks and even photos of text — Woord reads them all out loud.
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Text-to-Speech API
Ship voice features in your own product with the same engines that power Woord.
Loved by people who listen for a living
“Huge thanks to Woord! Makes my life easier”
Anthony LarsonContent Editor - BBC
“Everyone doing a podcast should be using Woord.”
Jena KimbolEntrepeneur
“Thanks Woord for being so easy to use. Its awesome!”
Mark FisherCEO & Founder - Nusca
“Thanks, Woord, for being user-friendly and brilliant! Converting text to audio has never been this easy. Truly awesome!”
Gabriela RodríguezContent Manager - BBC
“I love how Woord effortlessly converts my documents into audio. It's user-friendly and gets the job done seamlessly.”
Alex TurnerSoftware Developer
“Its exceptional user-friendliness and brilliance! Transforming text into audio has never been as effortless. Truly impressive!”
Claire HarperSound Engineer
“Enormous appreciation. Simplifies my daily routine, making life much more convenient.”
Richard SantosChief Technology Officer
“Big thanks for its user-friendly design. It's truly fantastic!”
Maria FernandezUser Experience Specialist (UX)
“Woord has simplified podcasting for me. It's incredibly user-friendly and packed with awesome features.”
Javier GonzalezSoftware Architect
“It is a great TTS tool for converting my documents into audio. It helped me a lot!”
Caroline RodriguezSystems Analyst
“I was amazed with this text to speech option, one of the best I have ever used.”
Martin VargasProduct Manager
“Easy and great! A ready to go tool with a lot of voices. Loved it from the first time.”
Valerie MendezDevelopment Coordinator
“Huge thanks to Woord! Makes my life easier”
Anthony LarsonContent Editor - BBC
“Everyone doing a podcast should be using Woord.”
Jena KimbolEntrepeneur
“Thanks Woord for being so easy to use. Its awesome!”
Mark FisherCEO & Founder - Nusca
“Thanks, Woord, for being user-friendly and brilliant! Converting text to audio has never been this easy. Truly awesome!”
Gabriela RodríguezContent Manager - BBC
“I love how Woord effortlessly converts my documents into audio. It's user-friendly and gets the job done seamlessly.”
Alex TurnerSoftware Developer
“Its exceptional user-friendliness and brilliance! Transforming text into audio has never been as effortless. Truly impressive!”
Claire HarperSound Engineer
“Enormous appreciation. Simplifies my daily routine, making life much more convenient.”
Richard SantosChief Technology Officer
“Big thanks for its user-friendly design. It's truly fantastic!”
Maria FernandezUser Experience Specialist (UX)
“Woord has simplified podcasting for me. It's incredibly user-friendly and packed with awesome features.”
Javier GonzalezSoftware Architect
“It is a great TTS tool for converting my documents into audio. It helped me a lot!”
Caroline RodriguezSystems Analyst
“I was amazed with this text to speech option, one of the best I have ever used.”
Martin VargasProduct Manager
“Easy and great! A ready to go tool with a lot of voices. Loved it from the first time.”
Valerie MendezDevelopment Coordinator
The reader that lets you keep the audio
Most tools make you choose: listen inside their app, or pay per character to export. Woord does both — for one flat price.
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Listen-only reader apps
Beautiful reading experience — but the audio never leaves the app. No MP3, no commercial use, no API.
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Pay-per-character platforms
Powerful studios where every generation burns credits — narrating long documents gets expensive fast.
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Woord
Read along with word-by-word highlighting, then download the MP3 and own it — commercial license, flat monthly price, API included.
Simple, honest pricing
Start free with 2 conversions. Upgrade when you need more audios, longer texts and premium voices.
✓ No annual traps✓ No daily caps✓ Keep your MP3s✓ Cancel anytime
Woord is an online text-to-speech platform that turns any text, article, document or image into natural-sounding audio using 235 voices — 86 of them with real regional accents — across 45 languages — including regional accents from the US, UK, Australia, Canada and many more countries and accents.
Yes — the reader at the top of this page gives you 2 free conversions (up to 1,000 characters each) with no signup. Creating a free account unlocks more conversions and lets you save your audios.
Most TTS products only offer one “standard” accent per country. Woord's regional voices speak with real local accents — Southern drawl, Texas twang, New York attitude, authentic British, Australian and Canadian English, plus voices from Spain, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, India, Japan, South Korea and many more countries and accents — so your content sounds local, not generic.
With Woord, you can bring your applications to life, by adding life-like speech capabilities. For example, in E-learning and education, you can build applications leveraging Woord's Text-to-Speech (TTS) capability to help people with reading disabilities. Woord can be used to help the blind and visually impaired consume digital content (eBooks, news etc). Woord can be used in announcement systems in public transportation and industrial control systems for notifications and emergency announcements. There are a wide range of devices such as set-top boxes, smart watches, tablets, smartphones and IoT devices, which can leverage Woord for providing audio output. Woord can be used in telephony solutions to voice Interactive Voice Response systems. Applications such as quiz games, animations, avatars or narration generation are common use-cases for cloud-based TTS solutions like Woord.
We support different varieties of the English language (US, UK, Australia, India, Ireland and Welsh — plus regional accents from many more countries), Spanish, Spanish Mexican, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Canadian French, German, Russian, Catalan, Bengali, Danish, Welsh, Turkish, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Dutch, Norwegian, Korean, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Czech, Filipino, Hungarian, Finnish, Greek, Gujarati, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, South African, Thai, Ukrainian, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
No, paid subscriptions don't have a limit on the number of characters to convert.
Yes you can. We have male and female voices.
Yes, you can listen to text in your documents, messages, presentations, scans, web pages or notes using Woord. Paste plain text, share article URLs, or upload PDFs, Word documents, ebooks and images containing text — Woord extracts the content and reads it aloud.
Yes, you have up to 10,000 characters per audio on any plan. If you need more, please contact us.
Yes. Every paid plan includes unlimited MP3 downloads of your generated audios, ready to publish on podcasts, videos, e-learning platforms or anywhere else.
Audios created on paid plans can be used in your commercial projects — videos, podcasts, ads, e-learning courses and products. Check our Terms & Conditions for the full details.
Yes — the Woord Text-to-Speech API lets you convert text to audio programmatically with the same voices you see here. It's perfect for apps, publishing workflows and automation.
The SSML editor lets you fine-tune your audio with tags for pauses, emphasis, pronunciation, pitch and speed. Create an audio, open it in the SSML editor from your dashboard, and adjust the markup until it sounds exactly right.
Yes, you have two options: choose a speaking speed before converting, or fine-tune the rate with the SSML editor for full control over pace and pauses.
Yes, absolutely. If you want to cancel your plan, simply go to your account and cancel on the Billing page. Remember that to cancel your current subscription you can't create more than 2 audios in the month where you are canceling. Also, you will lose the features that you had when you purchased the plan.
Prices are listed in USD. We accept all major debit and credit cards. Our payment system uses the latest security technology and is powered by Stripe, one of the world's most reliable payment companies. If you have any trouble with paying by card, you can pay using PayPal.
You may request a refund for your current month if you request it within 2 hours of the transaction and only applies to the first payment we receive. We reserve the right to decline that request should you use our software within this time.
We don't have any discounts currently.
Yes! But it has to be for a bigger bundle than what's available.
You can message us through our chat popup, or email us using our contact info.
Your billing cycle starts the day you purchase one of our Plans and ends the same day of the next month or next year (if you are paying annually). Instead, the limit of audios that you can make is renewed on the first day of each month. In other words, if you buy one of our plans on April 10th, your Audios credit will be activated that same day. The next payment will be made automatically on May 10th, however, on May 1st the Audio counter will be reset and it will start again.
You can manage all of this on your own from your dashboard!
Unfortunately, we don't give refunds on renewals — you can check our terms and conditions here.
You will be required to downgrade your account back to the Free Plan first, and then subscribe again with the billing frequency you prefer.
Yes! It's deleted automatically. The information is handled by Stripe or PayPal — we don't store your credit or debit card data.
If you're paying with a credit/debit card, you can find them by going to Billing → Billing Portal → Invoices.
Yes, you can pay for a pro plan annually. The basic plan doesn't have an option to pay annually — it's monthly.
First, you have to downgrade to a free plan to make sure we won't charge you again. After that, you can delete your account from your dashboard.
Give your words a hometown voice
Join thousands of creators using Woord to turn text into audio people actually enjoy listening to.
Anthony LarsonContent Editor - BBC
Jena KimbolEntrepeneur
Mark FisherCEO & Founder - Nusca
Gabriela RodríguezContent Manager - BBC
Alex TurnerSoftware Developer
Claire HarperSound Engineer
Richard SantosChief Technology Officer
Maria FernandezUser Experience Specialist (UX)
Javier GonzalezSoftware Architect
Caroline RodriguezSystems Analyst
Martin VargasProduct Manager
Valerie MendezDevelopment Coordinator