Free Chinese AI Text to Speech with MP3 Download

How to create Chinese AI speech as MP3

1. Type or paste your text into the box above (up to 1,000 characters per day for free).
2. Pick one of the 39 voices and, if you like, adjust the speed or switch on Add Instructions to describe the style.
3. Click Read to listen or Download as MP3 to save the file.

The language is detected automatically from your text, so you do not need to select it.

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Tips for voice instructions and pauses: AI voices overview.

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Example audio files for all voices in Chinese

Example sentence: 敏捷的棕色狐狸跳过了懒惰的狗。

Voice instructions with the new voices

Same sentence, different instructions: 老钟敲响了午夜十二点，屋子里某处的一扇门缓缓打开了。谁也没有动。

New voices

Current voices (available until December 31, 2026)

Facts about the Chinese language:

Chinese, with its ancient origins and complex writing system, is not just a single language but a group of languages or dialects numbering over a hundred. Mandarin Chinese (普通话), the official language of China and Taiwan, is the most spoken language globally, with over a billion native speakers. However, the Chinese language family also includes other major dialects like Cantonese (粤语), Shanghainese (上海话), and Hokkien (闽南语), each with its own unique phonetic, lexical, and syntactic characteristics.

The roots of Chinese can be traced back more than 3,000 years to the earliest logographic writing, known as oracle bone script, used during the Shang Dynasty for divination purposes. Over the millennia, Chinese characters have evolved through several stages—bronze inscriptions, seal script, clerical script, regular script, and more—mirroring the changes in Chinese society and governance.

A remarkable feature of the Chinese language is its writing system, consisting of thousands of characters, or "hanzi" (汉字). Each character typically represents one syllable and, by extension, a morpheme, which is the smallest semantic unit of meaning in a language. Unlike alphabetic writing systems, Chinese characters do not provide direct cues to pronunciation but rather embody meaning through intricate combinations of strokes and radicals.

The 20th century brought significant change to the Chinese language, most notably with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 which promoted language reform and the creation of "baihua" (白话), a push for written vernacular Chinese over the classical "wenyanwen" (文言文). The midpoint of the century saw the introduction of Hanyu Pinyin, a romanization system designed to standardize pronunciation and facilitate learning. In tandem with these linguistic reforms was the simplification of Chinese characters in mainland China, aimed at improving literacy rates and modern communication.

Despite these modern adaptations, Chinese remains a tonal language, where meaning is distinguished not just by phonemes but by pitch and intonation. With its four main tones and one neutral tone in Mandarin, the language offers a rich tapestry of semantic possibilities. As it continues to spread and influence globally, Chinese carries with it the legacy of one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, a testament to human culture and adaptability.