Japanese Text to Speech
Turn Japanese text into natural speech with AI voices. 13 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 Japanese text to speech
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.
Sample — 日本語
“今日はとても良い天気なので、みんなで公園へ散歩に出かけて、美味しいお弁当を食べましょう。”
- Native name
- 日本語
- Speakers
- about 125 million speakers, almost entirely in Japan
- Language family
- Japonic (generally treated as a language isolate at family level)
- Script
- Mixed Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana
- Spoken in
- Japan, with small communities in Brazil, Hawaii and immigrant populations
