Korean Text to Speech
Turn Korean text into natural speech with AI voices. 11 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 Korean text to speech
Korean text-to-speech must handle Hangul, a featural alphabet whose syllable blocks the engine decomposes into onset, nucleus, and coda before mapping to phonemes. The hardest synthesis problems are pervasive sound-change rules — liquid assimilation, nasalization, and tensification — where written and spoken forms diverge, plus the honorific verb endings (-습니다 vs -아요) that shift register. Most demand comes from the Seoul standard, though a synthesizer aiming at naturalness must also decide pitch-accent contours for the southeastern Gyeongsang dialect; typical users are e-learning publishers, navigation apps, and KakaoTalk-style notification readers.
Sample — 한국어
“안녕하세요, 오늘 날씨가 정말 좋네요. 이 음성은 인공지능이 한국어 텍스트를 자연스럽게 읽어주는 예시입니다.”
- Native name
- 한국어
- Speakers
- 81 million speakers
- Language family
- Koreanic
- Script
- Hangul
- Spoken in
- South Korea, North Korea
