Read any webpage, article, or PDF aloud with high-quality, human-like AI voices. Powered by advanced local generative AI, running 100% offline and private on your Linux system.
Listen to the natural, human-like generative voices running 100% offline.
US Female Voice
US Female Voice
US Male Voice
Specifically built to deliver the absolute best offline performance, maximum accessibility, and complete data privacy.
All speech processing happens locally on your computer. Your text never leaves your machine—no cloud outages, no subscription fees, and complete reading privacy.
Enjoy natural pronunciation with cutting-edge Kokoro TTS and Misaki G2P engines. Misaki improves pronunciation accuracy for English, Spanish, French, and Japanese.
Not just for webpages! Open PDFs in a custom browser viewer optimized for textbooks and articles. Set exact page ranges, skip title pages, and navigate easily.
Follow along visually. Spoken text highlights in real time and scrolls automatically. The extension can even click "Next Page" for you on articles.
A single executable file containing everything needed to run. Simply run it on modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch. No complex Python/ONNX dependency installation required!
BetterTTS uses AI voice models trained purely on public domain audio. Enjoy state-of-the-art synthetic speech with a clear conscience, respecting creators.
The BetterTTS desktop app acts as a high-performance local backend for the browser extension. By running speech synthesis natively on your device, it completely bypasses browser execution sandboxes, offloads CPU-heavy tasks from your tabs, and delivers studio-grade voice fidelity.
Compare the performance benefits of running the dedicated local application against the browser-only fallback below.
This is a pay-what-you-want product starting at a minimum of $19.99. Pay the recommended price, or pay more to support independent, ethical AI software development!
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Get up and running with offline AI text-to-speech reading in just a few minutes.
Download the AppImage file, right-click on it, select Properties, go to the Permissions tab, and check the box to "Allow executing file as program".
Launch the setup installer and follow the step-by-step instructions inside to complete the installation of the local engine components and browser web extension.
Click the BetterTTS icon in your toolbar to open the popup menu and click "Read this Page" on any webpage or PDF, or select text and read from there.