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BeyondWords can convert text to speech in 77 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Mandarin, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian (Bokmål) Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu.
In many cases, AI voices are available across multiple languages locales. For example, we support Australian, Canadian, English, Hong Kong, Indian, Irish, Kenyan, New Zealand, Nigerian, Filipino, Singaporean, South African, Tanzanian, US American, and Welsh varieties of English.
The text on our platform is written in English.
Each BeyondWords plan comes with a character limit. This determines how many characters (including letters, symbols, and spaces) you can convert into audio.
Our audio players should not slow down your website. We’ve designed BeyondWords to minimize any effect on latency. The JavaScript player is lightweight and embedded via an iFrame, which means that it only loads after all other page content has loaded. We’re also the only text-to-speech service that transcodes audio for HLS (HTTP Live Streaming), which splits audio into 15-second segments at different bit rates to ensure frictionless listening.
Yes, we offer a Pilot plan that allows you to test out the platform.
Yes, you can use BeyondWords to process audio for any purpose, as long as you are in accordance with our terms and privacy policy.
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