German Text to Speech
Turn German text into natural speech with AI voices. 10 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 German text to speech
German text-to-speech is built around standard Hochdeutsch, the formal written norm used in broadcasting and education across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Synthesis challenges are concrete: long compound nouns (Donaudampfschifffahrt) must be split for correct stress, the umlauts ä/ö/ü and the ß need full Unicode handling, and the engine must decide where to place the glottal stop before vowel-initial syllables that gives German its crisp articulation. The voiced/voiceless final-obstruent rule (final devoicing, so Tag rhymes with "tack") is applied automatically; primary users are audiobook producers, corporate training departments, and accessibility teams serving the DACH market.
Sample — Deutsch
“Guten Tag, dies ist eine Demonstration der deutschen Sprachsynthese, die geschriebenen Text in natürlich klingende Sprache umwandelt.”
- Native name
- Deutsch
- Speakers
- 135 million speakers
- Language family
- West Germanic (Indo-European)
- Script
- Latin
- Spoken in
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Luxembourg
