Listen to anything,
anywhere, offline.

Free & open source AI text-to-speech. 100% offline, 100% private — wetin you read or type no dey ever comot from your computer. 50+ natural voices for 8 languages.

E dey available everywhere

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Out Loud Desktop App

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Free. Forever. Open.

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Out Loud

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MIT licensed · Open source

  • Free forever — no fees, never
  • Open source — check, fork, and change the code
  • 50+ natural AI voices for 8 languages
  • Desktop app + Chrome extension
  • 100% offline — your data dey stay for your device
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Latest release: v2.0.1 · MIT licensed

Hear the difference

50+ voices. Judge am yourself.

E no be like robot. E no dey strange. Press play make you hear how free & open source dey sound.

Heart

English (US)

Warm and full of feeling

Bella

English (US)

Clear and confident

Emma

English (UK)

Fine British

Xiaobei

Chinese

Natural Mandarin

Alpha

Japanese

Clear and sharp

Dora

Spanish

Warm Castilian

Sara

Italian

Smooth Italian

Beta

Hindi

Natural Hindi

Alex

Portuguese

Bold Brazilian

+ 44 more voices for English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Italian & Portuguese

Features

Premium TTS, wey dem build for open.
No subscriptions. No tracking. No compromise.

100% Offline

Everything dey run for your own machine. You no need internet after you install am. Your text no dey ever comot from your device.

100% Private

No cloud. Wetin you type, paste, or read no dey save anywhere except for your own computer.

Free & Open Source

MIT licensed. Fork am, check am, make am better. No ads, no trackers, no upsell — and the code dey there make anybody fit verify am.

50+ Natural Voices

From warm and friendly to clear and professional. 8 languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and more.

Chrome Extension

Read any webpage loud with just one click. Articles, PDFs, emails — anything for your browser, all of am local.

Comparison

Why you go switch from
Speechify?

Feature
Out Loud
Speechify
Price
Free
$139/year
Open source
E dey work offline
Natural AI voices
Chrome extension
Desktop app

Save $139 every year. Forever.

How e dey work

From install to your first word under one minute.

Download

Grab the installer for macOS, Windows, or Linux — or the Chrome extension.

Paste or browse

Paste text inside the app, or press the extension for any webpage. Everything dey process for your own machine.

Listen

Pick a voice, press play. Natural speech go stream for just some hundred milliseconds, fully offline.

FAQ

You get questions? We get answers.

Yes. 100% free to download, use, change, and share — forever. No trial, no paywall, no “premium” tier. The source code dey for GitHub under the MIT license.

No catch dey. Out Loud dey run fully for your machine, so no servers to pay for and nothing to upsell you. If you like am, star the repo — na that one be enough thank you.

Out Loud dey use one light AI model wey dey run fully for your device. The model dey download once during setup (80–320 MB), then e dey work without internet.

No cloud dey. Wetin you type, paste, or read no dey ever comot from your computer — and because the source dey public, you fit verify am yourself.

macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows, and Linux. Plus one Chrome extension to read webpages.

Dem rank our AI voice engine among the best for independent benchmarks. The voices dey natural, full of feeling, and dey really sweet to listen to.

English (US & UK), Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, Hindi, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese — 50+ voices in total.

For sure. Issues, pull requests, translations, and new voices, all of dem welcome for GitHub. Dem build Out Loud for open.

Stop to dey rent your voice.
Own am. Fork am.

Free to download. Free to change. Free forever. Your voice, your machine, your code.