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.
Wrap your text in SSML tags for precise control:
<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
Tags the selected model understands — click to drop one into your text where it happens:
This model reads plain text, so inline tags are ignored. For tag-based emotion, switch to an expressive model like Orpheus or Bark.
Define custom pronunciations (word = pronunciation):
About Chinese (Mandarin) text to speech
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.
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
