Japanese Text to Speech

Turn Japanese text into natural speech with AI voices. 13 voices. Free, no signup — download as MP3 or WAV.

Japanese text-to-speech is governed by pitch accent rather than stress: each word has a fixed high-low pitch pattern, and getting it wrong makes a voice sound foreign even when every syllable is correct — for instance "hashi" can mean bridge or chopsticks depending on the accent. The writing system mixes Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana with no spaces, so the engine must segment text and pick the right reading for Kanji that have several (端 vs 橋 vs 箸). Standard (Tokyo) accent is the default for most synthesis, while regional varieties such as Kansai have a different pitch pattern entirely.