--- title: "Croatian Text to Speech - 8 Native AI Voices | Speecho" description: "Turn Croatian text into natural speech with 8 native Croatian voices. č and ć kept apart, the syllabic r of Hrvatska read right. Free samples, no subscription." canonical: "https://speecho.app/text-to-speech/croatian/" language: "en" publisher: "Speecho" --- Text to speech · Croatian # Croatian text to speech with native voices Luka, Maja, Fran, Nina and four more are Croatian speakers - č and ć kept apart, and Hrvatska said without an extra vowel. Paste your text, hear it free. [Try it free →](https://my.speecho.app/voice) 150 free credits on signup · no subscription, pay per character Updated October 2026 ## Hear the difference The same Croatian sentence, twice. Luka is a Croatian speaker; Zoe reads every letter of the phonetic spelling, but with English stress and rhythm, and č and ć come out as one sound. Luka - native Croatian Zoe - universal voice ## The Croatian voices Maja Female Native Ana Female Native Nina Female Native Lara Female Native Luka Male Native Fran Male Native Tomislav Male Native Karlo Male Native All 8 run on the ElevenLabs tiers: Enhanced at 110 credits / 1,000 characters (≈ $0.23 per minute of speech) and Premium at 160 (≈ $0.33) for the most natural result. The Standard tier reads Croatian too at 50 credits, and for most languages it has native voices of its own. Every clip downloads as MP3. [Browse the voice library →](https://speecho.app/text-to-speech/voices/) ## Why a native Croatian voice matters Croatian spelling is close to phonetic - one letter, one sound - so a foreign voice gets most of the letters right and still sounds foreign. The first giveaway is č and ć: a hard ch and a soft one, kept apart in standard Croatian, as in čaj, tea, and kuća, house. dž and đ make the same pair, voiced. Foreign voices merge them. The second is r: Croatian makes it the core of a syllable with no vowel at all, in prst, vrt, krv and the name of the country itself, Hrvatska, and an English-trained voice slips in a vowel that is not there. Then there is the rhythm. Standard Croatian has four accents, rising and falling, on long and short syllables, and the stress never falls on the last syllable of a word of more than one; vowel length matters too. Croatian is also ijekavian: mlijeko, rijeka and lijepo, where the Serbian of Serbia says mleko, reka and lepo, and the voices read the ije as Croatian speakers do. All eight are Croatian speakers; Fran and Karlo are from Zagreb. Luka is a calm, neutral narrator, Fran a warm, deep voice for documentaries and audiobooks, Tomislav steady and clear for stories, Karlo young, friendly and easy-paced for explainers. Among the women, Maja is a young, engaging voice for narration and audiobooks, Ana a professional voice actor with a friendly, conversational delivery, Nina calm and resonant for long listening, Lara upbeat for commercials and social video. ## How it works [Watch the full tutorial on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAIwuHhr5j0) 1 ### Paste your text Up to 200,000 characters, voiced part by part when the text is long. Paste Croatian text and the app detects the language. 2 ### Pick a voice Every voice has a free sample in its own language - audition before spending a credit. 3 ### Play & download Ready in seconds. Listen in the browser or download the MP3; clips stay in your history for 90 days. ## Frequently asked questions **Does it keep č and ć apart?** Yes. čaj and kuća, or the surnames ending in -ić, get the hard č and the soft ć as a Croatian speaker says them, and dž and đ stay distinct too. **Does it read words like Hrvatska and prst?** Yes - the syllabic r is read as Croatian has it, with no vowel slipped in: prst, vrt, krv, Hrvatska. **Can I use it for Serbian or Bosnian text?** You can: the languages are mutually intelligible, and the voices read Serbian and Bosnian in Latin script without trouble. But they are Croatian speakers, so the accent stays Croatian, which a Serbian listener will hear. There are no Serbian or Bosnian voices of their own yet. **How much does Croatian text to speech cost?** Native voices cost 110 credits per 1,000 characters on Enhanced or 160 on Premium. A 1,000-character paragraph is roughly a minute of speech - about $0.23 on Enhanced at the $5 pack rate. No subscription. ## Give your Croatian text a voice Preview every voice free - pay only for the characters you convert. [Try Croatian text to speech →](https://my.speecho.app/voice) ## Native voices in other languages