Free Text-To-Speech and Text-to-MP3 for Irish English

How to convert Irish English text to MP3

1. Type or paste your text into the box above (up to 3,000 characters per day for free).
2. Choose a voice from the list.
3. Click Read to listen in your browser, or Download as MP3 to save the audio file.

No account, no app and no AWS account are needed. Longer texts are processed in the background; please keep the page open until the audio is ready.

Free limit and premium plans

The free converter allows 3,000 characters per day (about 375 words). Your usage today is shown below the converter and resets every day.

Need more? Premium plans range from a 24-hour pass to monthly and yearly plans with up to 10 million characters. Every yearly plan includes access to the text-to-speech API.

Commercial use of the MP3 files

You may use the MP3 files created with ttsMP3 in commercial and non-commercial projects – for example YouTube voiceovers, podcasts, presentations, e-learning courses, websites and apps. This applies to free and paid usage, and you do not have to credit ttsMP3 (a mention is always appreciated). See commercial use of text to speech for details.

Irish English voices

For Irish English you can choose between these voices: Niamh. All of them are Amazon Polly voices and pronounce your text with a native Irish English accent. In total ttsMP3 offers 74 regular voices in 41 languages and accents.

Pauses, emphasis, speed and pitch (SSML)

You can control the speech with SSML tags directly in your text. Here are the most useful ones:

Add a break

Mary had a little lamb <break time="1s"/> Whose fleece was white as snow.

Emphasizing words

I already told you I <emphasis level="strong">really like</emphasis> that person.

Speed

For dramatic purposes, you might wish to <prosody rate="slow">slow down the speaking rate of your text.</prosody>
Or if you are in a hurry <prosody rate="fast">you may want to speed it up a bit.</prosody>

Pitch

Do you like synthesized speech <prosody pitch="high">with a pitch that is higher than normal?</prosody>
Or do you prefer your speech <prosody pitch="-20%">with a somewhat lower pitch?</prosody>

Whisper

<amazon:effect name="whispered">If you make any noise,</amazon:effect> she said, <amazon:effect name="whispered">they will hear us.</amazon:effect>

Conversations

You can switch between speakers within one text:

[speaker:Brian] Hello Emma
[speaker:Emma] Hey Brian
[speaker:Brian] How are you doing?
[speaker:Emma] I am fine. May I invite you to a cup of tea?

Please remove diacritical signs from the speaker names: Léa = Lea, Penélope = Penelope.

Need more effects? See our SSML guide with examples or the Amazon SSML tags for Amazon Polly.

Facts about the Irish English language:

Irish English (Hiberno-English) is the English spoken in Ireland. English is the first language of most of the roughly five million people in the Republic of Ireland and of people in Northern Ireland, while Irish (Gaeilge) is the first official language of the Republic and is still spoken as a community language in the Gaeltacht regions.

Irish English has been shaped by the Irish language. Many sentence structures are translated directly from Irish, for example I am after eating, meaning I have just eaten, or it is himself that did it. Irish speakers also tend to answer questions by repeating the verb instead of saying yes or no: Are you coming? I am.

The vocabulary is colourful. Grand means fine or okay, craic is fun and good company, a press is a cupboard, giving out means complaining and your man or your one refers to a person whose name you do not mention. Several words come straight from Irish, such as sláinte for cheers and smithereens, from smidiríní.

The accent varies a lot between Dublin, Cork, Galway and Belfast, but many speakers share a clear r after vowels, a soft t and a melodic intonation. The th in think is often pronounced closer to a t, so three can sound like tree.

Irish English is known around the world through Irish literature, from James Joyce and W. B. Yeats to Sally Rooney, and through Irish music, film and comedy. An Irish voice gives videos, stories and e-learning a warm and friendly sound, and helps listeners get used to the Irish accent.

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