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Cantonese Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator for Hong Kong
Cantonese text to speech in a Hong Kong voice: type or paste your script in Traditional characters and press Play to hear it.
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Voice
Edit the text, pick a voice and press Play. Listen as often as you like before you sign up. Type in Traditional characters, and write spoken Cantonese words such as 嘅, 咗 and 唔 when you want a casual, everyday tone.
7 voices
Cantonese (Hong Kong) text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 7 Cantonese (Hong Kong) voices, 3 male and 4 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Meilin
Chung Wai
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Hong Kong scripts sit between two registers. Standard written Chinese, as in 他們沒有來, suits news, government notices and formal training. Written Cantonese spells out how people actually talk, as in 佢哋冇嚟, and it is what ads, YouTube videos and social posts use. Pick one register for each script so the tone stays consistent from the first line to the last.
Everyday Hong Kong speech is full of English: 開 meeting, book 枱, send 個 email 俾我. Keep those words in Latin letters, the way people type them in a chat, and preview the line. Many shops and brands have both a Chinese and an English name, so use the one your listeners really say. If a name such as 旺角 or a brand comes out wrong, add it to the pronunciation dictionary.
Characters with two readings need a listen. 樂 is lok6 in 快樂 but ngok6 in 音樂, and 重 is cung4 in 重新 but zung6 in 重要. Sentence-final particles such as 啦, 喎 and 囉 also carry much of the attitude in Cantonese. The same sentence can sound friendly or impatient depending on the particle, so play every line that ends in one.
What people make with Cantonese (Hong Kong) voice over
Shop and property promos
Voice a sale announcement for a shop in Causeway Bay, or a short video tour of a new flat, in the casual Cantonese that Hong Kong viewers expect.
HKDSE revision audio
Turn revision notes and model answers into listening material for tutoring centres and secondary students who revise on the MTR.
Estate and clinic notices
Record a clear notice for the lift lobby screens of a housing estate or a clinic waiting room, then update one line when the opening hours change.
YouTube and podcast narration
Narrate food, travel and personal finance explainers for Hong Kong channels, keeping one voice across the whole series.
Three steps
How to convert Cantonese (Hong Kong) text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Cantonese (Hong Kong) 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 Cantonese (Hong Kong) 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. Cantonese (Hong Kong) has 3 male and 4 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.
For Hong Kong, use Traditional characters. They are standard in Hong Kong and Macau schools, signs and newspapers, and viewers there expect them in subtitles too. If your listeners are in Guangzhou or elsewhere in Guangdong, where Simplified characters are the norm, start from the Cantonese (China) page instead. Either way, preview every line that contains a name.
They are separate spoken languages that share most written characters. Cantonese has more tones, keeps final sounds such as -p, -t and -k, and has its own everyday words, such as 佢 for he or she and 冇 for not have. Use these voices for listeners in Hong Kong and Macau, and the Chinese page for Mandarin listeners in mainland China.
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