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Wu Chinese Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator
Wu Chinese text to speech for listeners around Shanghai: type or paste a script, choose the male or female voice and press Play.
Hear it in Wu Chinese
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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 Simplified characters, and keep each local word in one spelling throughout the script so it is read the same way every time.
2 voices
Wu Chinese text to speech voices, male and female
Listen2It has 2 Wu Chinese voices, 1 male and 1 female. Press Use this voice to load one into the tool. Filter by gender.
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Wu is the family of Chinese varieties spoken in Shanghai, southern Jiangsu and much of Zhejiang. It is not Mandarin with an accent. Wu keeps voiced consonants that Mandarin lost and has its own tones and many of its own words, so a Mandarin listener may follow only part of a fast conversation.
There is no settled way to write Wu. Writers borrow characters for local words, such as 侬 for you, 阿拉 for we and 辰光 for time, and spellings differ between books and social posts. Many scripts are written mostly in standard Chinese, with a few of these words for flavour. Preview every dialect word, and if one is read wrongly, set it once in the pronunciation dictionary.
Choose these voices when a Shanghai feel is the point: a city walk, a nostalgic brand story, a heritage museum guide or a local character in a drama. With one male and one female voice, you can stage a short dialogue between a shopkeeper and a customer. For a message that must reach all of China, use the standard Mandarin voices instead.
Three steps
How to convert Wu Chinese text to speech in three steps
Add your script
Type or paste Wu Chinese 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 Wu Chinese 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. Wu Chinese has 1 male and 1 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.
Shanghainese is the best known kind of Wu, but Wu is wider. Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou speech are Wu too, and some of it, Wenzhou above all, is hard even for other Wu speakers to follow. These voices suit the Shanghai area.
You can paste a standard Chinese script and play it, but its grammar and word choice will still sound like Mandarin read aloud. For a more local result, swap in Wu words, such as 今朝 for today and 欢喜 for like, and use 勿 for not. Preview each changed line.
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