Chinese Text to Speech

Read web pages with Chinese Text to Speech: Mandarin voices, pinyin above characters and adjustable speed.

🗣️ Hear Any Page Read Aloud in Mandarin Select a paragraph on any page and let Chinese Text to Speech do the reading. This Mandarin reader speaks in a calm voice, shows pinyin above the characters and highlights the sentence you are hearing, so you can listen and follow along without leaving the page. Learners use it to pronounce Chinese words, readers use it for long articles, and translators use it to check how a paragraph sounds. 🎯 What You Can Do 1️⃣ Select a passage, right-click and choose the listen option from the menu 2️⃣ Open the panel from the toolbar and read Chinese aloud, sentence by sentence 3️⃣ Switch pinyin Mandarin helpers on or off while the speech plays ⚙️ Key Features ➤ Female or male voice for Mandarin text to speech ➤ Speed from 0.5x to 2x, plus a volume control ➤ Pinyin above the characters, with short English meanings for common HSK words ➤ Optional sentence translation into English on your device (Chrome 138 or newer) ➤ Only Chinese text mode, which skips English words while reading ➤ Shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+Y opens the panel, Alt+P plays or pauses, Alt+Left and Alt+Right change the sentence 📌 How to Use Chinese Text to Speech 1. Install the extension 2. Select a passage on a page, or click the toolbar icon to read the whole page 3. Choose Listen with Chinese TTS in the right-click menu 4. Pick a voice and a speed, press play and follow the highlighted sentence 🌐 Works Where You Read The reading panel also works in online documents, email, book previews and AI chat replies. News sites, blogs and learning pages work as well, so a text reader for Mandarin fits the tools you already use. The panel stays beside the page while you scroll. 🎓 Pronounce Mandarin with Confidence Hearing a sentence while reading its pinyin is a quick way to practise Chinese pronunciation and tones. Replay one line, slow it down to 0.5x, then compare it with what you read. Mandarin pronunciation is easier to learn when speech in Chinese and written characters appear together, and the highlighted sentence shows exactly where you are. Mandarin text to speech makes that practice easy to repeat. 🔄 More Ways to Listen • Long article? Start at the top and let Chinese Text to Speech read it paragraph by paragraph • Email in Mandarin? Open it in your webmail and play it • Lesson notes in an online document? Select a line and listen • Reply from an AI assistant? Hear the passage with pinyin above it 💡 Tips for Clear Listening - Start with one short paragraph - Use Chinese Text to Speech at 0.75x for hard sentences - Turn on pinyin when you are unsure about a tone - Switch on the mode that skips English words if they interrupt the voice - Select the passage again if a page replaces its content while you listen 📊 Daily Allowance Without signing in you can read up to 3,000 characters per day. Signing in with a Google account raises the allowance to 5,000 characters. Speech is generated online, so a connection is needed, and the selected text is sent to the service to create the audio. Only the optional translation runs on your device. ⚠️ Not Working? - Reload the page if the panel does not open on a tab that was already open during installation - Check that the extension is enabled at chrome://extensions - Open a normal public page, because browser settings pages and the store do not allow extensions - If no characters are found, select a sentence by hand and try again 💬 Frequently Asked Questions ❓ How do I use Chinese Text to Speech on a web page? 💡 Select the passage, right-click and choose Listen with Chinese TTS. The panel opens and starts reading. ❓ Does it show pinyin? 💡 Yes. Pinyin appears above the characters and can be switched off in the panel. ❓ Can I choose the voice and the speed? 💡 You can pick a female or male voice and a speed from 0.5x to 2x. ❓ Is there a limit? 💡 Reading is limited to 3,000 characters per day without signing in and 5,000 characters per day with a Google account. ❓ Does it work offline? 💡 No. Speech is generated online. Only the optional translation runs on your device. 🎯 Who Benefits Most • Mandarin learners who want to hear a sentence and see its pinyin together • Teachers preparing reading material for a class • Translators and editors checking how a sentence sounds • Readers who prefer to listen to long articles • Anyone who needs Chinese Text to Speech inside the browser instead of a separate tool 📦 Disclaimer Speech results depend on the text a page exposes.