Paste Norwegian text and hear it read aloud with natural pronunciation. Eleven voices cover bokmaal and regional dialects. The first 350 characters are free.
Gratis versjon leverer MP3, 22 050 Hz, 64 kbps, mono. Higher quality and WAV require a subscription.
All voices run locally on our own server. Nothing is passed on, and your text is not stored.
Yes - you can listen to the first 350 characters of any text for free. For longer texts and MP3 downloads there are subscriptions from $8.99 per month.
Ida (female), Ingrid (female), Kari (female), Erik (male), Solveig (female), Lars (male), Bjoern (male), Ola (male), Nils (male), Marit (female), Astrid (female). All voices run locally on our own server - your text is never passed on.
Eleven voices in total: Ida reads standard bokmaal, and ten more cover northern, western, southern and eastern dialects.
Yes, with a subscription you can download the reading as MP3 or WAV and use it in videos, podcasts or e-learning.
Make sure Norwegian is selected in the language picker above the text field. The language is detected automatically, but you can always override it.
The Norwegian voices are built on open speech databases from the National Library of Norway (CC0). Speech synthesis runs with Piper on our own server.