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Irish Accent Generator and Text to Speech Voices
Paste an English script into this Irish accent generator, press Play and hear it read in an Irish voice.
Hear it in Irish English
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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 Irish names in their Irish spelling, fadas included, as in Siobhán or Dún Laoghaire, and preview each line.
6 voices
Irish English text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 6 Irish English voices, 2 male and 4 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender. Of these, 3 are Emotional voices, and each supports the 7 emotion presets. Choose Calm, Happy or Serious, for example, and the voice reads that line in that mood.
Gender
Siobhán Murphy
Aoife Gallagher
Emily
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Irish names and places use Irish spelling, and they rarely sound the way an English reader expects. Siobhán is said "shiv-awn", Niamh is "neev", and Dún Laoghaire is "dun leary". The accent mark, the fada, lengthens a vowel, so keep it. Preview every name, and if one comes out wrong, set its reading once in the pronunciation dictionary.
Irish English uses British spelling, such as colour, centre and tyre, and it has words of its own. Grand means fine, a press is a cupboard, and the craic is fun or news, as in "what's the craic?" A few of these make a script sound written in Ireland rather than about it.
Irish speech has its own grammar habits. People often answer with the verb instead of yes or no: "Are you coming?" "I am." Many say "I'm after finishing it" to mean they have just finished. Write dialogue that way and the line lands more naturally. For a warm storytelling read, try the Emotional voices with the Calm preset.
What people make with Irish English voice over
Tourism along the west coast
Narrate stops on coastal drives, castle tours and distillery visits, so overseas visitors hear what sounds like a local guide.
Folklore and bedtime stories
Storytellers voice the Children of Lir, tales of the banshee or the adventures of Fionn mac Cumhaill for podcasts and children's audio.
Ads for Irish shops and pubs
Local businesses voice radio and social offers for the Irish market, where a British or American voice would stand out.
Three steps
How to convert Irish English text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Irish English 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 Irish English 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. Irish English has 2 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.
No. A Dublin accent sounds very different from a Cork or a Kerry one, and Northern Irish speech in Belfast or Derry is different again. Even within Dublin, people hear a difference between the north and south of the city. Play each sample on the cards above and pick the voice closest to the sound you have in mind.
These voices read English with an Irish accent. Irish, or Gaeilge, is a separate Celtic language. Still, a handful of Irish words turn up in everyday English in Ireland, such as sláinte for cheers, Taoiseach for the head of government and Gardaí for the police. Keep their Irish spelling, preview each one and correct any slip in the pronunciation dictionary.
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