Paste Spanish text — no need to speak a word of it — and get studio-quality Castilian audio in seconds.
One is a mistake — a mark misread, a word changed. The other is not a mistake at all, just the wrong Spanish for the people listening. A general-purpose engine makes the first kind. Only you can make the second.
These three pairs differ by one mark each, and each mark changes what the sentence means. An engine that treats Spanish as English with different words gets them wrong every time. In each pair, play the line with the mark missing, then the line as written.
One accent, two unrelated nouns.
The opening ¿ sets the pitch from the first syllable, not the last.
The tilde is a different letter, not decoration.
Nothing above is a matter of taste. This is. A Madrid voice is not worse than a Mexico City one — it is just audibly from somewhere else, and your listeners place it in the first sentence. Most tools offer "Spanish" as one option; the library carries 1,524 voices across eight of them, filterable.
Counts read from the live catalogue, not typed into this page.
Not tiers of quality — different machines. One performs, the other reads. Every figure below was measured on the same sentence, not read off a datasheet.
Acts the line. [laughs] adds a real laugh — 0.47s of one, measured against the same sentence without it. Pauses come in fixed sizes rather than a duration you set.
Pick this for dialogue, characters, ads and anything where a flat read would sound like a robot reading Spanish.
Reads long scripts at the pace you set. Takes a whole chapter in one request and honours a pause to within three hundredths of a second of what you asked for.
Pick this for audiobooks, course narration and anything long enough that consistency matters more than performance.
Four things we measured against the engine. None of them appear on a competitor page, because knowing what Spanish text to speech really costs helps you spend less rather than more.
Translate a script and the character count grows by roughly a fifth — grammar and word choice, not a billing rule. Budget for the Spanish length, not the English one, or your first month runs short.
Every character you send is charged, including the ones that make no sound. A single half-second break tag costs 22 characters of quota; [laughs] costs 8. We label the insert buttons with what they spend, so the cost is on the button rather than on your invoice.
The expressive engine rejects SSML and the fast one has no sound tags. Send the wrong one and it is billed in full, produces nothing, and reports no error. Our editor only offers the syntax the selected model performs.
Billing counts Unicode code points, so á, é, ñ, ¿ and ¡ each cost exactly one — Spanish is not charged a premium for being Spanish. Useful to know before someone tells you otherwise.
Up to 40,000 characters per file. Whole chapters, whole courses, one pass.
Slow for learners, tight for ads. Sentence-level pause control included.
MP3 on every plan; uncompressed WAV, AAC and Opus as you move up. Full commercial licence from Starter.
3 sample scripts on the real engine, up to 300 characters — no account, no card. Sign up when you want the file.
YOUTUBELocalize your channel for 500M+ Spanish speakers without hiring voice actors.
COURSESNarrate Spanish lessons with adjustable speed for every learner level.
AUDIOHours of narration with one consistent voice, start to finish.
PRODUCTGreet Spanish customers like natives — menus, prompts and confirmations in one consistent voice.
Start free. Every plan bills by the character, so you pay for what you actually generate.
Audio lengths are estimates — actual duration depends on the voice, the speed setting and the text.