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Basque Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Write in euskara and try Basque text to speech here: type or paste a script, choose a voice, then press Play.
Hear it in Basque
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Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Keep tx, tz and ts exactly as written, because each spelling marks a different sound.
4 voices
Basque text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 4 Basque voices, 1 male and 3 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
Gender
Ander
Izaro
Irati
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Basque, or euskara, is unrelated to Spanish, French or any other living language. Scripts for schools, media and public bodies use Euskara Batua, the unified standard that the Basque language academy, Euskaltzaindia, began building in 1968. Its spelling is regular. Tx sounds like ch, x like sh, and tz and ts are two distinct sounds. Native words avoid c, q, v, w and y.
Basque builds meaning with endings, so one noun takes many forms: etxe (house), etxean (in the house), etxetik (from the house), etxera (to the house). Names take endings too, as in Donostiara (to Donostia) or Mikelek. Words can get long, so never break one across lines, and preview personal and brand names with an ending attached.
Counting goes in twenties: hogei is 20, berrogei 40 and hirurogei 60. Dates run from year to day: 2026ko urriaren 13a. Use the Basque forms of place names, such as Donostia and Gasteiz, in a Basque script. If a brand or a Spanish surname comes out wrong, set its reading in the pronunciation dictionary.
Three steps
How to convert Basque text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Basque text, or import a .txt, .docx or .pdf file up to 500KB, or a web page by URL.
Pick a voice and shape the delivery
Play the samples, choose a voice, add pauses where the listener needs a breath, and set how any word is read with the pronunciation dictionary.
Generate and download
Export an MP3, a voice and music mix, or SRT captions.
What's free
Free plan
Everything you need to hear your script
- The Free plan costs $0.
- Every voice is included.
- Preview voices as often as you like.
- A free account gets 2,500 credits once, not every month. That is about 2,500 words of text to speech.
- Download your audio as an MP3.
- The Free plan is for personal and evaluation use. Paid plans add commercial rights.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can play any voice on this page before you sign up. The full library has 1,411 voices across 160 languages and dialects.
Write or import your Basque script, choose a voice and press Generate. To download the MP3, create a free account: downloads work on the Free plan. You can also export a voice and music mix or SRT captions.
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and includes every voice, with a one-time allowance of 2,500 credits, about 2,500 words. It is for personal and evaluation use.
Yes. Basque has 1 male and 3 female voices. Use the gender filter above the voice list and try a few with your own first line.
Yes, on a paid plan: paid plans include commercial rights, and the Free plan is for personal and evaluation use only. Starter costs $5 for the first month, then $19 a month.
Preview the line first. If a number, date or abbreviation comes out wrong, write it the way it should be spoken, or add it to the pronunciation dictionary, which is on every plan. One entry fixes that word across the whole project.
Not at all. Basque is a language isolate with its own grammar, word order and vocabulary, so Spanish speakers cannot follow it without learning it. Its sounds are fairly easy for Spanish ears, but the words are not. Write or commission the script in Basque rather than translating word for word, and use the Spanish page for Spanish.
Basque counts in twenties above twenty. Thirty is hogeita hamar, twenty and ten, and ninety-nine is laurogeita hemeretzi, eighty and nineteen. Figures are fine in a script, but preview long numbers, years and phone numbers. If one is read in a way you did not intend, write it out in words.
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