Korean text to speech with native voices
Anna, Seulki, Hyuk and Chris are Korean speakers, most with a Seoul accent. Paste your text, hear it free, pay per character.
Try it free →150 free credits on signup · no subscription, pay per character
Hear the difference
The same Korean sentence, twice. Anna is a Korean speaker; Aria reads Korean with an English accent - the tense consonants and the flat, unstressed phrasing are where it breaks.
The Korean 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 Korean too at 50 credits, with 6 delivery styles. Browse all 106 voices →
Why a native Korean voice matters
Korean punishes foreign TTS in a way that is easy to hear and hard to fix: the three-way stop contrast (ㄱ/ㄲ/ㅋ, plain, tense and aspirated) has no English equivalent, so an English-trained voice collapses all three into one. Hangul also changes sound in combination - 신라 is read as silla, 국물 as gungmul - and a voice that reads letter by letter gets every one of these wrong. Korean is phrase-timed rather than stress-timed, so the English habit of hammering one syllable per word sounds immediately foreign.
All four native voices are Korean speakers; Anna, Seulki and Chris carry a Seoul accent, the standard register of Korean broadcasting. Anna is tender and clear, well suited to narration and audiobooks; Seulki is a mature, measured voice for corporate and educational content; Hyuk is a cool, even male narrator, the most-used Korean voice in the library; Chris is younger and warmer, at home in explainers and conversational scripts.
How it works
Paste your text
Up to 20,000 characters - about 20 minutes of speech. Paste Korean text and the app detects the language and puts the Korean 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
Does it handle honorifics and speech levels?
Yes - the voices read whatever level the text is written in, from 해요체 to formal 합니다체, with the intonation each one carries. The level comes from your text; the voice does not change it.
Does it apply Korean sound-change rules?
Yes. Assimilation and tensing across syllable boundaries (신라 → silla, 학교 → hakkyo) are native behaviour for these voices, not a post-processing rule that can misfire.
Can it read mixed Korean and English text?
Yes - English terms and brand names inside Korean text are pronounced as English rather than transliterated through Hangul, which is how Korean speakers read them out loud too.
How much does Korean text to speech cost?
Native voices cost 90 credits per 1,000 characters on Enhanced or 180 on Premium; OpenAI Standard reads Korean at 50. Hangul is compact, so 1,000 characters carry more content than in English - the per-word cost is lower. No subscription; credits never expire.
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