Male voice text to speech

The five male voices

There are three American male voices, Fenrir, Michael and Puck, and two British male voices, George and Fable. Descriptions of voices are always a little subjective, so treat the notes below as a starting point and then trust your own ears.

Fenrir tends to sound deeper and steadier, which suits instructions, explainers and narration where you want a calm, even delivery. Michael tends to be warmer and more conversational, closer to someone talking to you than reading at you; it is the voice the YouTube preset uses. Puck tends to be lighter and more animated, which can fit casual content, short videos or a friendlier tone.

On the British side, George tends to be measured and unhurried, and Fable tends to be more expressive. The British text to speech page goes into those two in more detail.

Matching the voice to the script

The quickest way to choose is to paste one representative paragraph of your real script, not a test sentence, and generate it with two or three voices. A voice that sounds good on a greeting can feel wrong on a dense technical paragraph, and the reverse is also true.

Think about who the listener imagines is speaking. Software tutorials and safety instructions usually benefit from a steady voice like Fenrir. Personal stories, vlogs and podcast-style intros often land better with Michael. Energetic promos or light explainers are where Puck tends to fit. Each voice also has a short listen button in the voice menu, which works before anything is downloaded, so you can narrow the list before generating anything.

Speed and pauses for male narration

A deeper voice can feel slow at normal speed on fast-moving content, and rushed if you speed it up too far. Try 1× first, then 1.1× for short social clips and 0.9× for instructions people follow step by step. The range is 0.7× to 1.5×.

Pauses matter more than people expect in voiceover. Type [pause 1s] after a heading or before a key point, or use the Pause button to insert 0.5, 1, 2 or 3 seconds at the cursor. If the narration sits over screen recordings, a pause gives viewers time to see what just happened before the next instruction starts.

When you need more than one male voice

The tool generates one voice per file; there is no option for a dialogue with several voices in one recording, and there is no voice cloning, so you cannot make it sound like a specific person. For a two-person conversation, write each speaker's lines as a separate block, generate them with different voices, download each as WAV, and arrange them in an audio or video editor. WAV is the better choice for editing because it is uncompressed; convert to MP3 at the end if you need a smaller file.

Fixing lines without redoing everything

After generating, the parts list shows each sentence or two as a separate piece. If one line sounds off, edit that part and regenerate only it; the rest is reused instantly. Unusual names are the most common problem, and the fix is to spell them the way they sound. When the take is right, download MP3, WAV or SRT subtitles timed to the audio.

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