German text to speech with natural German voices
Turn German scripts into speech that sounds like a native speaker. 49 German voices, including 11 Austrian and 9 Swiss ones.
Listen to German voices
Every sample is a real German voice from the catalog. Press play on a portrait.
Where German voices are used
Explainer and product videos for the German-speaking market, e-learning and onboarding courses, presentations, audiobooks, ads, podcasts and phone menus. German is one of our core languages and has the most voices in the catalog.
Standard German, Austrian or Swiss
Customers notice where a voice comes from. For a shop in Vienna or a clinic in Graz an Austrian voice sounds closer, for a company in Zurich a Swiss voice. The catalog filters voices by region, so you can test the same script with all three in a few minutes. All regional voices are collected on the pages for Austrian German and Swiss High German.
What makes German hard for speech synthesis, and how to fix it
Long compound words, numbers, dates and abbreviations are where synthetic German usually stumbles. Write abbreviations out ("zum Beispiel" instead of "z. B."), write dates the way they are spoken, and set the stress on a word that sounds wrong right in the editor. Spell English brand names the way they should sound.
For a livelier read, German voices have emotions: the same voice can sound calm, joyful, serious or tender. You can hear the difference in the Voice Lab before you sign up.
From script to file in three steps
Paste the German text, pick a voice and adjust pace and pauses where needed. Then export WAV or MP3, or call the same voice from your code through the REST API.
Questions and answers
The first 10,000 characters are free, credited once at sign-up, no card needed. Paid plans start at €9 a month for 120,000 characters.
Yes: 11 Austrian and 9 Swiss voices, next to the standard German ones.
Yes. 49 German voices have emotions such as calm, joyful, serious or tender. Try them in the Voice Lab.
Yes. A short recording is enough to create a private voice that only your account can use.
WAV and MP3. Developers can also generate German speech through the REST API.
Hear your German script now
10,000 characters free at sign-up. No card needed.