Best Text to Speech English Voices

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October 26, 2020 5 min read
Best Text to Speech English Voices

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“Louis Vuitton or Gucci?”, “Nike or Adidas, wait…Puma maybe?”. Choosing between brands is super hard. Let alone, when you’re trying to convert your text to speech, and you’re not sure which is the best text to speech English voice, from an ever-growing list of AI Voices.

For example, take our website into account. At Play.ht, we have over 260+ high-quality realistic Best free Text to Speech AI voices from Google, Amazon Polly, IBM, and Microsoft. Just thinking about choosing from over 260+ voices, can give you a headache.

Well, Prada, Louis Vuitton, or Gucci we can’t say, but when it comes to choosing the best English voices for your audio files, we’ve got you covered!

Our previous article on Text to Speech voices explored all the Neural Text to Speech Voices offered by Microsoft, which broke the barrier between AI Voices and Human Voices.

By the end of this article, you’ll know which voice suits you the most, and which are the best English voices that you can consider, when you’re converting your text to speech online.

Our Favourites

Here’s a list of what we use regularly, and recommend our customers. We feel these voices sound considerably better than the remaining voices available online.

Voice NameGenderSample Audio
en-AU-AvaFemale Audio Player
en-AU-EthanMale Audio Player
en-AU-NatashaNeuralFemale Audio Player
en-CA-ClaraNeuralFemale Audio Player
en-IN-AdityaMale Audio Player
en-IN-AlishaFemale Audio Player
en-IN-NeerjaNeuralFemale Audio Player
en-IN-RaveenaFemale Audio Player
en-GB-BrianMale Audio Player
en-GB-LibbyNeuralFemale Audio Player
en-GB-LilyFemale Audio Player
en-GB-MiaNeuralFemale Audio Player
en-US-AriaNeuralFemale Audio Player
en-US-GuyNeuralMale Audio Player
en-US-NoahMale Audio Player

If you’ve noticed, some of the voices tagged Neural sound much crispier and clearer than the rest.

Well, this is due to a simple fact that Neural Voices are designed in such a way that they are made to sound or are indistinguishable from human voices.

If you’d like to know more about these voices, and their features, please go through our previous article on Neural Voices, from Microsoft.

The Chosen One’s – The Best Text to Speech English Voices

Yes! Not just One, but One’s! This is our Matrix, and Play.ht is your Oracle.

With these voices, especially the Neural voices, you can adjust the speaking style to express different emotions like cheerfulness, empathy, and calm, or optimize the voice for different scenarios like customer service, newscasting and voice assistant that fit your need.

We recommend these handpicked text to speech voices, if you’re looking for that oomph factor in your text to speech conversions.

RegionVoice Name
Australiaen-AU-Ethan, en-AU-NatashaNeural
Canadaen-CA-ClaraNeural
Indiaen-IN-Aditya, en-IN-NeerjaNeural
United Kingdomen-GB-LibbyNeural, en-GB-MiaNeural
United Statesen-US-AriaNeural, en-US-GuyNeural

To give you a clearer picture of how crisp, clear and lifelike these voices are, we have a small Audio Conversation for you to listen to, between the aforementioned text to speech voices.

Please play these voices one after the other to experience, a Not so AI Conversation.

Ethan : Audio Player
Aditya : Audio Player
Neerja : Audio Player
Guy : Audio Player
Libby : Audio Player
Aria : Audio Player
Mia : Audio Player
Clara : Audio Player
Natasha : Audio Player

As you can see, it’s almost as though a real conversation’s going on between fellow colleagues.

If you are excited by this, then let me tell you that, this isn’t even the tip of the iceberg.

In our future updates to come, we will be introducing more text to speech voices, incorporating the latest releases from Google, Amazon Polly, IBM and Microsoft, which sound even more realistic, and human.

All things considered, we hope by now you’ve have found your voice, and gained that special something to take your voice generation, or text to speech conversions to infinity and beyond!

The sky isn’t even the limit when it come’s to converting your text to speech, and we at Play.ht are just getting started.

Which text to speech voice did you find the best? Voice out in the comments section below!

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