Basque Text to Speech
Turn Basque text into natural speech with AI voices. 2 voices. Free, no signup — download as MP3 or WAV.
Wrap your text in SSML tags for precise control:
<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
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About Basque text to speech
Basque is a language isolate: it has no demonstrated relationship to any other living language, which makes it genuinely unusual territory for speech synthesis. Models for most languages benefit from structural similarity to well-resourced relatives, and Basque offers none of that transfer, so its voices have to be built on Basque data alone. The grammar is equally distinctive, with ergative-absolutive alignment that marks the subject of a transitive verb differently from an intransitive one, and an agglutinative case system that stacks suffixes into long, information-dense words. Its spelling is reliably phonemic, which helps considerably. Euskara Batua, the unified standard developed from the 1960s, gives synthesis a consistent target, and because Basque is co-official in its home regions there is steady demand for it in public services, schools, and regional broadcasting.
Sample — Euskara
“Testua ahots bihurtzeko teknologiak ikasleei eta profesionalei beren idatziak erraz entzuten laguntzen die.”
- Native name
- Euskara
- Speakers
- Around 750,000 speakers, the last surviving pre-Indo-European language of Western Europe
- Language family
- Language isolate (no known living relatives)
- Script
- Latin
- Spoken in
- The Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre in Spain, and the Northern Basque Country in south-western France
