Google Translate voice: save the audio or choose another voice
Google Translate can read both your text and the translation aloud with its Listen button. That is handy for checking pronunciation, but it stops there: Translate offers no button to save that speech as a file and no way to pick a different voice, such as a male voice instead of the default one.
This guide shows the simple way around it: translate as usual, then voice the translation with a voice of your choice and download it.
What Translate’s voice can and cannot do
The Listen button plays the text in the voice Google chooses for the language. You cannot download it, change the voice, or use it for a video, a presentation or a phone message as a file. For apps, Google’s paid developer product is Cloud Text-to-Speech, which our Google Text-to-Speech alternative guide compares.
Voice a translation in seconds
Translate your text, copy the translation, open any SuperClonica voice page, paste a line of 30 to 100 characters, choose the language and press Voice it. In a few seconds you can download the recording, with no account. Pick a male or female voice, a narrator or a character: every voice speaks all 31 languages of the model.
Longer texts
For a whole translated document, install the free engine with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu and voice it offline in one command: superclonica --text-file translation.txt --voice M2 --lang es --output translation.wav. Change --lang to the language of the translation and --voice to the voice you like; end the output file in .mp3 to get MP3 directly, and the speech API returns MP3 as well.
Languages to check
Google Translate covers far more languages than SuperClonica. The engine speaks 31, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and Korean, but not Chinese, Bengali, Tamil or Urdu yet. Check the list before you rely on it.
Good to know
Machine translation can be wrong, and a voice makes a mistake sound convincing; have important texts checked by someone who speaks the language. Stock voices may be used commercially; fan-made character voices are for fan and parody content.