Free Text-To-Speech and Text-to-MP3 for Swiss Standard German

How to convert Swiss Standard German 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.

Swiss Standard German voices

For Swiss Standard German you can choose between these voices: Sabrina. All of them are Amazon Polly voices and pronounce your text with a native Swiss Standard German 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 Swiss Standard German language:

Swiss Standard German (Schweizer Hochdeutsch) is the written and formal standard German used in Switzerland. German is the most widely spoken of the four national languages of Switzerland, used by about 60 percent of the population, next to French, Italian and Romansh.

Switzerland has a special situation called diglossia: in daily life almost everyone speaks Swiss German dialects (Schweizerdeutsch), while Swiss Standard German is used for writing, in schools, in parliament, in the news and when speaking with people who do not understand dialect. Swiss Standard German is therefore the variety that learners and visitors hear in formal situations and read everywhere.

The most visible difference in writing is that Switzerland does not use the letter ß; Strasse is written with a double s. The vocabulary has its own words, often influenced by French: Velo for bicycle, Trottoir for pavement, Billett for ticket, parkieren for to park, Znüni for a mid-morning snack and Natel for a mobile phone. Greetings such as Grüezi and Merci are part of everyday Swiss life.

The pronunciation is clear and calm, with a typical Swiss melody, a strongly pronounced ch sound and stress that often falls on the first syllable, even in words borrowed from French such as Büro.

A Swiss Standard German voice is useful for anyone who prepares material for a Swiss audience, learns German for work or studies in Switzerland, or wants to understand how German sounds in Zurich, Bern or Basel.

Supported voice languages: