Tara AI Voice
Conversational, warm. Type your text below and generate natural speech with Tara — then download the MP3.
Speech studio
34 voices · 18 languages
Standard+ (Orpheus) speaks at a fixed speed — the speed control applies to the other voices.
Examples
Hear Tara on real scripts
Each clip below was generated with a free-tier voice on the script shown. Play one to hear how this kind of writing lands, or load the script into the generator above and hear Tara read it.
Audiobook passage
Narrative prose, to hear how a voice handles description and pace.
“The house had been empty for eleven years, and it had the particular stillness of a place that has stopped expecting anyone. Dust lay on the banister in a way that suggested nobody had run a hand along it in a very long time. She did, once, on the way up, and felt slightly guilty about it.”
Phone greeting
IVR or voicemail line — the classic use for a consistent voice.
“Thank you for calling Northgate Supply. Our team is available Monday to Friday, eight until six. For an existing order, press one. For everything else, stay on the line and someone will be with you shortly.”
Product ad
Thirty seconds of ad copy, the hardest thing to read naturally.
“You already own the shoes. That's the annoying part. They're at the back of the cupboard, they still fit, and the only thing standing between you and Saturday morning is the fifteen minutes it takes to find them. We can't help with that. But everything after it, we can.”
About the Tara voice
Tara is conversational in the specific sense that matters for storytelling: she varies pace within a sentence, slowing where a person would and moving quickly where a person would. That makes her strong on anecdote and weak on anything requiring a uniform read.
The engine behind this voice
Orpheus is Canopy Labs' Apache-2.0 model built on a three-billion-parameter Llama backbone — a language model taught to speak, unusually good at conversational rhythm and weaker at formal reading. It takes up to 300 characters per request and reads at a fixed pace, and returns MP3 or WAV. Longer text is split at sentence boundaries and joined back into one file.
More about Orpheus TTS →What Tara costs
Nothing. Tara is a free-tier voice: 5,000 characters a day without an account, 10,000 with a free one, and no credit card at any point. Audio downloads as MP3 or WAV and carries a commercial licence, so monetised videos and client work are both fine.
The daily allowance is stated plainly here because several sites in this category advertise "unlimited" and enforce a monthly cap. What is written above is what the server enforces.
Best for
What Tara is good for
- Faceless storytelling and short-form narrative video
- Anecdotal or personal-essay content
- Conversational explainers that should not sound scripted
- Dialogue lines needing natural, unpolished delivery
Limits
Where Tara is the wrong choice
Her natural pace variation is exactly what you do not want when several files have to match — two paragraphs generated separately will not sound identically timed. Orpheus also caps at 300 characters and rejects speed control outright.
If Tara is not quite right
- Adam — clear, confident — the same price as Tara, with a different character. Worth previewing back to back before you commit a whole script to either.
- Oliver — british, warm. Reach for this one when Tara is close but the register is not quite right.
- Grace — wise, storytelling, on the premium tier. The step up is naturalness under close listening rather than a different personality — worth it for client work, usually not for a first draft.
How it works
How to use Tara
- 1
Paste your text
Type or paste the script you want Tara to read. Longer text is split into parts automatically and joined back into one file.
- 2
Preview Tara
The generator above already has this voice selected. Play the sample, or generate a sentence of your own text to hear it on your writing.
- 3
Generate and download
Audio comes back in seconds as MP3 or WAV, with a commercial licence on every tier — including the free one.
Questions