Canadian English text to speech with five Canadian voices

When Canadian English is worth picking over American

Canadian English is the closest major accent to American English, and pretending otherwise would waste your credits. Most of the difference sits in two places. The first is Canadian raising: before a voiceless consonant the vowels in "out", "about", "house" and "write" start higher than they do in the United States, which is the feature every impression exaggerates and every real speaker produces mildly. The second is a handful of words - "sorry", "borrow", "tomorrow" - where the Canadian vowel matches "story" rather than the American "sari". Spelling follows British convention (colour, centre), and every voice reads both spellings correctly.

So the reason to pick a Canadian voice is rarely intelligibility. It is that the copy is Canadian: a government or healthcare notice, a bank or telecom ad, a training module for Canadian staff, a video about Canadian prices in Canadian dollars. An American voice reading that is perfectly clear and still slightly off, in the way a British voice reading American copy is. Irene is the conversational voice, made for social and short-form; Catherine is an educator, made for explainers and course material; Stephanie is calm and confident, for corporate narration; Dillon is a grounded conversational male; Jimmy is a podcast narrator. For Quebec French, this is the wrong page - French voices live on the French text-to-speech page.