URL to Audio
Provide either a URL or text. If both are filled, text is used. Up to 2,000 characters.
About the URL to Audio
URL to Audio converts the readable text of a webpage, or any text you paste, into spoken audio narration you can listen to or download as a WAV file. The tool extracts the main body content from the page, strips out navigation, ads, and boilerplate, then synthesizes a natural-sounding voice track using the open-source Kokoro text-to-speech model.
Speech synthesis runs entirely in your browser. The first time you generate audio, the compact Kokoro voice model (about 86 MB) downloads from the Hugging Face hub and is cached for future use, after which it runs offline using WebAssembly — your text and the resulting audio never leave your device. You can choose between multiple American and British voices and adjust the speaking speed before generating.
This is genuinely useful for accessibility, for people with visual impairments or reading difficulties, and for anyone who wants to consume content hands-free while commuting, exercising, or doing chores. Students and researchers also use it to turn reference material into a listenable format, and writers use it to hear how their own published prose flows aloud.
For the cleanest narration, target pages with substantial readable text and avoid pages that are mostly menus, forms, or dynamic widgets. If you only need the text itself rather than audio, the AI Summarizer can condense the page first, and if you want to read on the go instead of listen, URL to PDF produces an offline document version.
Frequently asked questions
- What kind of pages work best?
- Article and blog style pages with a single block of readable prose work best. Pages dominated by navigation, tables, or interactive widgets produce poor narration because there is little extractable text.
- Can I choose the voice or language?
- Yes. You can pick from several Kokoro voices across American and British English and adjust the speaking speed before generating. The voices are English; output quality reflects the open-source Kokoro-82M model.
- Why is my audio cut off or shorter than the article?
- Input is capped at 2,000 characters so generation stays fast in the browser, so only the first portion of very long pages is narrated. Pointing at a specific article URL rather than a long feed, or pasting the exact passage you want, yields more complete audio.
- Is my text or audio uploaded anywhere?
- No. Speech is synthesized entirely in your browser with WebAssembly, so your text and the generated WAV never leave your device. Only the voice model itself is downloaded (once) from the Hugging Face hub, and the finished audio can be played inline or downloaded as a WAV file.
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