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A TTSReader alternative that saves MP3 for free

TTSReader is a handy online reader: according to its own page it reads plain text, files, PDFs, e-books and websites aloud in the browser without a login, with the browser’s voices free and without limits, and premium AI voices on top. Exporting the speech as an MP3, however, is listed as a premium feature, currently on Windows only.

If what you need is the audio file, for a phone, a video or an audiobook, SuperClonica does it for free on your own computer. This guide compares the two.

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What SuperClonica does differently

The free SuperClonica engine runs offline on Windows, macOS and Linux and writes the speech straight to WAV or MP3, with no character limit and no subscription. Its voices are neural rather than system voices, and the catalog adds narrators, announcers and character voices made by authors; every voice can be tried free on its page. Install it with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu, save the text as a .txt file and run superclonica --text-file book.txt --voice F2 --lang en --normalize --output book.mp3.

Where TTSReader is the better fit

For reading along in the browser right now, TTSReader is quicker: open the page, paste or drop a file, press play. It opens DOCX, PDF and EPUB directly, remembers your position, and its free browser voices cover every language your system has, while SuperClonica speaks 31 languages and not Chinese yet. SuperClonica takes plain text, so a PDF or EPUB has to be turned into text first; the guides to PDF to audio and EPUB to audiobook show how.

Choose by what you need

Listening once while you read: TTSReader’s free mode is enough. Keeping the audio, voicing many pages, private documents that should not leave your computer, or a character or narrator voice: SuperClonica. For apps, the SuperClonica speech API gives the same voices with a free key.