Free Chinese Tool
Paste any Chinese text below and press Play to hear it read aloud. You control the speed (0.5x to 1.5x), the pitch and which Chinese voice reads, and the text highlights as it goes so you can follow along. Everything runs on the speech engine already inside your browser: free, instant, nothing uploaded.
Great for listening practice, checking how a passage sounds, or hearing your Chinese name spoken. Need to see the pronunciation written down? The pinyin translator shows every syllable with tones.
Speed and pitch apply from the next Play. Text is capped at 5,000 characters per reading.
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ReadyThe currently spoken part is highlighted while the voice reads. Highlight support depends on your browser's speech engine; the reading itself always works.
Paste your text. Anything from a single word to a full lesson: a news paragraph, dialogue, or the characters of your Chinese name. The panel on the right mirrors your text so you can follow along.
Pick a voice and speed. Choose any Chinese voice installed on your device, then drag the speed slider down to 0.5x for careful listening practice or up to 1.5x to train your ear at natural pace.
Play, pause, replay. Pause anywhere and press Play again to restart from the top, or stop and adjust. Repetition is the point: hearing the same passage at 0.5x, then 1.0x, is a classic listening drill.
Hearing a word is the fastest way to learn it, but Chinese pronunciation has a second half you cannot hear: the written pinyin with its tone marks. Mandarin is a tonal language, and mā (mom), má (hemp), mǎ (horse) and mà (scold) are four different words that only tones separate. Listening on this page trains your ear; reading the pinyin trains your mouth.
Play a short sentence here at slow speed two or three times and try to repeat it. Follow the highlight so sound and characters connect.
Paste the same sentence into the pinyin translator to see every syllable with its tone, and hear single characters with its audio buttons.
Lock it in with the stroke order tool: watch the characters written stroke by stroke and quiz yourself. Hear, read, write is the full loop.
This page does not record audio in a studio: it conducts the speech voices your system already owns. Windows and macOS ship their own Chinese voices, Microsoft Edge can stream very natural neural voices, and iPhones, iPads and Android phones each include their own. That is why the same text can sound crisper on one laptop than another, and why the voice picker lists different options on each device. If you want better quality, installing additional Chinese voices in your operating system or browser settings instantly upgrades this page too. We would rather tell you this plainly than promise one perfect studio voice, and the reading, speed and pitch controls work identically everywhere.
Yes, completely free with no sign-up and no limits. The reading happens with the speech engine built into your browser, so the text never leaves your device and there is no server cost. Paste a sentence or a whole lesson, adjust the speed, and listen.
Yes. The speed slider goes from 0.5x for slow, careful listening practice up to 1.5x for fluent review, and the pitch slider changes how high or low the voice sounds. Speed and pitch apply from the next time you press Play, so stop and replay to hear the new settings.
Each device ships its own Chinese voices: Windows and macOS come with system voices, Microsoft Edge adds high-quality online neural voices, and Android and iOS have their own. This page lists every Chinese voice your device offers in the voice picker, so you can choose the one that sounds best to you. The tool itself works the same everywhere.
Yes. The reader speaks whatever Chinese text you paste, simplified or traditional. If your device has a Taiwan or Hong Kong voice such as zh-TW, choosing it gives you the Taiwanese accent; a zh-CN voice reads with mainland pronunciation.
This page is for listening: paste a passage and hear it read aloud at your pace. The pinyin translator is for reading: it shows the pinyin of every character with tone marks, so you can see and study the pronunciation syllable by syllable. Learners typically use both together, listening here and checking tones there.
If you already have a Chinese name, paste it here to hear it, then open the pinyin translator to see its exact pinyin and tones, and the stroke order tool to learn to write it. If you do not have one yet, create it first with the Chinese name generator: it only takes four steps.