Free Text-To-Speech and Text-to-MP3 for Italian

How to convert Italian 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.

Italian voices

For Italian you can choose between these voices: Giorgio, Bianca, Carla. All of them are Amazon Polly voices and pronounce your text with a native Italian 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 Italian language:

Italy is a country that is very steeped in history and customs. The same thing can be said about the Italian language. Currently, that are an estimated 65 million native speakers of the language throughout the world. The following is a small look at the Italian language.

Overall, the Italian language is one of the native languages of the countries of Italy, Sardinia, Switzerland, San Marino, and the Vatican. It is well known as one of the Romance languages. There are thousands upon thousands of communites and cities all throughout the world that have large populations of expatriate Italians and it is also there where the Italian language has been able to flourish.

History shows that the Italian language got its start from the orginal Latin that was spoke throughout the region during the Middle Ages. Over the years and through the influence of surrounding countries and empires, the Italian language has arrived to its current status and one that is spoken widely and respected all throughout the modern world.

With Italian being one of the Romance languages, it means that it gets its origins from Vulgar Latin. Linguists and scientists have been able to determine that of all the languages that can trace their orgins to Latin, it is the Italian language that is the further away from the mother language.

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