Read aloud and dictate
Listen to any text in Arabic or English, or talk and watch your words turn into notes you can edit, copy and download.
This browser cannot read text aloud. Try another up-to-date browser, or your phone's built-in screen reader.
This browser cannot turn speech into text. Try another up-to-date browser, or use the microphone key on your phone's keyboard to dictate straight into the box below.
In some browsers, speech recognition is done on the browser maker's servers, not purely on your device: your recorded voice is sent to them to be turned into text, and it does not work offline. This site never receives or keeps your voice or your notes.
This site does not upload or save anything you type or say. Your notes stay in this page until you close it.
Good to know
The list of voices depends on your phone or computer. If there is no Arabic voice, add one in your device's language or speech settings, then reload this page.
Voices marked "online" are made on a server, so the text being read is sent there. Pick a voice without that mark to keep the text on your device.
Speak at a normal pace in a quiet place, close to the microphone. Recognition often misses punctuation and names, so read your notes through and fix them before you share.
Hearing text helps with tired eyes, low vision, dyslexia and proofreading. Dictating helps when typing is hard or slow.
Sources: MDN Web Docs, "Web Speech API" and "Using the Web Speech API" (speech recognition in some browsers uses a server-based engine: audio is sent to a web service and does not work offline; voices report whether they are local); W3C Community Group "Web Speech API" specification; Wikipedia, "Speech recognition" and "Timeline of speech and voice recognition" (Bell Labs' "Audrey", 1952, recognised spoken digits from a single speaker).