Paste English text, press Listen, and hear it read back with a Spanish accent. There is no account to create and no limit on how many times you press play. The clip downloads as an MP3.
It handles a single word as easily as a full paragraph, which matters because the two uses are different. One word tells you how a sound lands. A paragraph tells you how the rhythm holds up.
Work in short passages. A paragraph at a time is easier to judge than a full page, and easier to re-cut if you are building something out of the clips.
Spanish and English assemble syllables under different rules. When English breaks a Spanish rule, the accent surfaces, and it surfaces in the same places every time.
An E slides in front of S words. Spanish words do not begin with s plus a consonant. The language solves this by putting a vowel first, which is why Latin schola became escuela and status became estado. Carried into English, “school” becomes “eschool”, “Spain” becomes “Espain”, “street” becomes “estreet”. This is the single most recognizable marker of the accent.
Final consonant clusters get resolved two ways. Spanish does not stack consonants at the end of a word, so English endings either lose a sound or gain a syllable. “Must” flattens toward “mus” and “wind” toward “win”. In the other direction, “advanced” can stretch to three syllables with the final E sounded.
S and Z stop being different. Spanish does not treat them as separate sounds, so the Z buried in “cousin”, “season” and “has” comes out as a plain S.
The R changes shape. Spanish uses a tapped R, made with a single flick of the tongue. English clusters like the ones in “drive”, “apron” and “straight” pull that tap back in.
Every syllable gets equal time. This is the one people hear without being able to name it. English squeezes unstressed syllables and stretches stressed ones. Spanish gives each syllable roughly the same length, so English sentences come out evener and the weak forms that native speakers swallow stay fully pronounced.
Vowels hold their shape. Spanish runs on five clean vowels that do not drift. English vowels slide, and when they stop sliding the words sound shorter and crisper.
Punctuation does more work than you would expect. Commas and full stops tell the voice where to breathe, and a paragraph with no punctuation comes out as one long run.
Pick sentences that contain the markers. A line with no S-clusters, no final consonant stacks and no Z sounds has nothing for the accent to act on, and it will come back sounding almost neutral. If a clip disappoints, check the text before blaming the voice.
The download button saves an MP3, which plays in any editor, slide deck or phone without conversion.
For a set of lines, generate them one at a time and rename each file as you go. Five short clips are far easier to retime later than one long recording, and if a single line needs redoing you only redo that line.
It is a synthetic voice, not a dialect map and not a coach. Madrid, Buenos Aires and Mexico City do not sound alike, and the audio here does not attempt to separate them. Treat it as a first pass for anything that matters.
It also reads what you type rather than translating it. For translation, use the English to Spanish translator.
Is the Spanish accent translator free?
Yes. No account, no cap on how often you press Listen.
Can I download the audio?
Yes, as an MP3, from the button under the text box.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, in the browser, with nothing to install.
Is this a Spain or a Latin American accent?
It is a general Spanish-accented English voice and does not model regional differences.
How long can the text be?
Long passages work, but short ones give a better result. Feed it a paragraph at a time.
Which other accents are available?
Thirteen. The links below this page lead to the rest.