Features

Voice (Text to Speech)

Engage your audience with spoken text

Do you want to make your content more accessible or simply enhance its engagement?
Let your readers listen to your content read aloud!

Smartphone displaying a multilingual text-to-speech interface of QR Translator, with language selection buttons and playback controls shown on the screen.

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Bring your text to life in spoken form instantly with Text to Speech (TTS) technology.

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upload Upload your own audio

If you prefer to use a human voice, you can upload your own audio files too.

No Fuss Audio Guides

Digital audio guides have become a popular way for museums to enhance the visitor experience. However, downloading a dedicated app for every museum can be a hassle for visitors.

QR Translator enables museums to provide hassle-free audio guides by allowing visitors to access them instantly on their phones via a scanned QR code, without the need for downloading a dedicated app.

Person using an audio guide in a museum, illustrating how visitors can listen to multilingual explanations through QR Translator.

Accessiblity

By making written text available in spoken form, narration makes your translated content even more accessible: Readers who have a visual impairment or reading difficulties can listen to your content instead of having to read it.

In Japan, QR Translator has been used on OTC drug packaging to make crucial information related to intake guidelines and allergens easily accessible to everyone.

Shionogi over-the-counter medicine package featuring a QR Translator code that provides multilingual, accessible product information.

Text to Speech

Easily generate multilingual voice-overs with AI-powered Text to Speech.

What is Text to Speech (TTS)

Text to Speech is an AI-powered technology that reads aloud digital text. It allows for easy updating and modification of audio content, without the need for re-recording by human narrators.

High quality audio

The Text to Speech voices on QR Translator are easy to listen to and are almost indistinguishable from a real human voice.

Languages & Voices

Available in over 75 languages — many with multiple voice options, including different dialects, male and female voices, and regional variations.

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QR Translator TTS settings screen showing language and voice options for creators.

SSML Support

For those who want every word to sound just right: Use SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) to define exactly how words and phrases are pronounced, emphasized, or paused.

Illustration showing an example of SSML code used in QR Translator to fine-tune Text-to-Speech pronunciation and pauses.

quizFrequently Asked Questions

Which languages are supported? Are there limitations to the languages and dialects available for Text to Speech?

Text to Speech is available in more than 75 languages. Most languages have both masculine and feminine voice options to choose from. For world languages such as Spanish, English, and etc., you can choose from a variety of accents and dialects. However, not all languages have the same level of voice options, and the availability of specific accents or dialects may vary.

It’s also possible to upload your own audio files (MP3), so you can add narration even for languages that are not supported by Text to Speech.

Can I customise the speed or tone of the Text to Speech voices?

Yes, you can customise the speed and tone of Text to Speech voices with SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language). QR Translator supports SSML files that are in accordance with Microsoft’s guide to SSML.

What file formats are supported for uploading custom audio files?

You can upload your own audio files in MP3 format.

Can Text to Speech be used for any type of content, or are there specific limitations?

Text to Speech will read aloud any text on the page. It cannot read aloud text that is part of an image or video.

Are there any additional costs associated with using Text to Speech or uploading custom audio files?

There are no additional costs.