Irish English text to speech with seven Irish voices

What an Irish audience hears

Irish English keeps the r after a vowel, like American English and unlike most of England, which is the first thing a listener notices. Beyond that: th softens towards t and d, so "think" leans on a t; the vowel in "price" starts further back; and the intonation carries a rise-and-fall through a sentence that neither British nor American English has. It reads as warm rather than formal, which is why it turns up so often in narration and advertising well outside Ireland.

Emily and Cillian are Northern Irish. Emily is bright and upbeat, suited to social content, tutorials and reviews; Cillian is low and calm, suited to long-form narration and audiobooks. Gallagher and Patrick are clear, warm voices made for e-learning and explainer video; Michelle is direct and conversational, the one for an ad read or a brand video; Maeve and Michael are both soft and unhurried, made for long reads. Their creators do not name a region for any of the five. A listener in Dublin or Cork will hear the north in Emily and Cillian - Ireland's accents vary sharply over short distances, and a Donegal voice does not pass for a Munster one. Where the specific region matters, that is a job for a human recording.