Chinese (Mandarin) Text to Speech

Turn Chinese (Mandarin) text into natural speech with AI voices. 25 voices. Free, no signup — download as MP3 or WAV.

Mandarin text-to-speech lives or dies on tone: it has four lexical tones plus a neutral tone, and getting the contour wrong turns "mā" (mother) into "mǎ" (horse), so the model must predict pitch per syllable, not just per sentence. Tone sandhi adds another layer — for example two third tones in a row shift the first to a rising tone, and the words "一" (yī) and "不" (bù) change tone depending on what follows. Because Hanzi carry no spaces and many characters are polyphonic (多音字), high-quality Chinese synthesis depends heavily on word segmentation and grapheme-to-phoneme disambiguation from context.

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Sample — 中文(普通话)

“今天天气很好,我们一起去公园散步,顺便买点水果回家吧。”

Native name
中文(普通话)
Speakers
about 1.1 billion speakers (roughly 920 million native Mandarin)
Language family
Sinitic branch of Sino-Tibetan
Script
Chinese characters (Hanzi) — Simplified and Traditional
Spoken in
Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, global Chinese diaspora

25 Chinese (Mandarin) AI Voices

Chinese Speaker 1

Bark
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Chinese Speaker 2

Bark
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Chinese Speaker

Bark Small
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Chinese Female

CosyVoice 2
Lehenetsia Female
Erabili

Chinese Male

CosyVoice 2
Lehenetsia Male
Erabili

Chinese Female

CosyVoice3
Lehenetsia Female
Erabili

Chinese Male

CosyVoice3
Lehenetsia Male
Erabili

Default (Chinese)

Darwin TTS
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Default

GPT-SoVITS
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Chinese Default

IndexTTS-2
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Xiaobei

Kokoro
Libre Female
Erabili

Xiaoni

Kokoro
Libre Female
Erabili

Xiaoxiao

Kokoro
Libre Female
Erabili

Yunjian

Kokoro
Libre Male
Erabili

Chinese

MeloTTS
Libre Female
Erabili

Default (Chinese)

Ming-Omni TTS
Libre Neutral
Erabili

Chinese

MOSS-TTS Nano
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Default (Chinese)

MOSS-TTSD
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Chinese

OpenVoice
Premium Neutral
Erabili

Huayan (Chinese)

Piper
Libre Female
Erabili

Uncle Fu

Qwen3 TTS
Lehenetsia Male
Erabili

Chinese Default

Spark TTS
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Speaker 1 (Chinese)

VibeVoice
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Speaker 2 (Chinese)

VibeVoice
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

Default Chinese

VoxCPM
Lehenetsia Neutral
Erabili

What people use Chinese (Mandarin) text to speech for

E-learning and Mandarin language-teaching narration
Short-video (Douyin/Bilibili) and livestream voiceover
Navigation and in-car voice prompts
Customer-service IVR and chatbot voices
News and audiobook narration for the diaspora

Chinese (Mandarin) Text to Speech — FAQ

Yes. You can paste either Simplified (mainland/Singapore) or Traditional (Taiwan/Hong Kong) text; both are read in Mandarin pronunciation.

The model predicts each syllable's tone contour from context and applies tone sandhi rules, so sequences like third-tone pairs and the special cases of 一 and 不 come out naturally.

Mostly yes. Multi-reading characters such as 行 (xíng vs háng) or 长 (cháng vs zhǎng) are disambiguated from surrounding words, though rare proper nouns can still be ambiguous.

These voices are Standard Mandarin (Putonghua). Cantonese uses a different tone system and pronunciation and is not the same as Mandarin TTS.

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