Filipino text to speech with native voices
Lyn, Nikie, Pedro and Josh are Filipino speakers - stress where it changes the meaning, and Taglish read the way people actually speak it. Paste your text, hear it free.
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Hear the difference
The same Filipino sentence, twice. Lyn is a Filipino speaker; Aria reads it with English vowels and English stress - and in Filipino, stress is not a matter of style, it separates words.
The Filipino voices
All 4 run on the ElevenLabs tiers: Enhanced at 90 credits / 1,000 characters (≈ $0.19 per minute of speech) and Premium at 180 (≈ $0.37) for the most natural result. The OpenAI Standard tier reads Filipino too at 50 credits, with 6 delivery styles. Every clip downloads as MP3. Browse all 138 voices →
Why a native Filipino voice matters
Filipino puts more weight on stress than most languages written in Latin script. Move it and the word changes: baka with stress on the first syllable is a cow, on the second it means maybe; buhay is life or alive depending on where the emphasis lands. Ordinary writing does not mark any of this, so a voice has to know the words. The glottal stop is the companion problem - it ends many words and separates vowels inside them, and a voice that glides through instead of stopping produces something fluent-sounding and wrong.
The particle ng deserves its own mention: written as two letters, pronounced nang, and one of the first things that gives away a non-native reader. Then there is Taglish, which is not an edge case but how Filipinos write - English clauses inside Tagalog sentences, all day. All four voices are Filipino speakers. Lyn is a clear educational voice and Nikie a soft, classy one for narration. Pedro is a professional male voiceover voice, Josh a natural narrator for long-form and documentary reading.
How it works
Paste your text
Up to 20,000 characters - about 20 minutes of speech. Paste Filipino text and the app detects the language and puts the Filipino voices first.
Pick a voice
Every voice has a free sample in its own language - audition before spending a credit.
Play & download
Ready in seconds. Listen in the browser or download the MP3; clips stay in your history for 90 days.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Tagalog or another Philippine language?
Filipino, the Tagalog-based national standard used in broadcasting and education. Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon and the other regional languages are not covered, and these voices should not be used for them.
Does it read Taglish properly?
Yes, and it is the reason to use native voices here. English words and whole clauses inside a Tagalog sentence are read as English, so a line like "Pwede ba natin i-reschedule yung meeting?" comes out the way it is actually said.
Does it get stress and glottal stops right?
Yes. Stress is resolved from the word and the sentence rather than from a fixed rule, which matters because pairs like baka and bakâ are spelled identically. Glottal stops are produced rather than smoothed over.
How much does Filipino text to speech cost?
Native voices cost 90 credits per 1,000 characters on Enhanced or 180 on Premium. A 1,000-character paragraph is roughly a minute of speech - about $0.19 on Enhanced at the $5 pack rate. The first clip is free.
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