Opal
Female · Middle-Aged · Multilingual
Software demo
Style: Speak in American English, upbeat and clear, walking a new user through an app.
Click New Project, paste your script, and your first draft is ready before your coffee cools.
English AI text to speech
with natural voices
English text to speech for book chapters, product walkthroughs, lessons, and podcast episodes, with the accent you ask for in a short line of direction. Write the script once and give each block its own narrator. Free plan: 1,000 words, and you don't need a credit card.
Enbee V2 narrators
21 multilingual narrators
Start with the first lines of a chapter
Paste a paragraph of your own, change the direction to a different accent or mood, and compare the takes.
Script language
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Script
101 / 250 charactersTags to try: [laughs] [whispers] [sighs] [angry] [excited] [sarcastic]
One language, four English accents
A US product demo, a British audiobook, an Australian podcast intro, and an Irish support line. Each accent comes from the direction line, not from a different language setting.
Clark
Male · Young · Multilingual
Village mystery chapter
Style: Read in British English like a measured audiobook narrator with a hint of suspense.
The house on Fenwick Lane had been empty for eleven years, or so everyone in the village believed.
Lorraine
Female · Young · Multilingual
Business podcast intro
Style: Speak in Australian English, warm and easygoing, opening a weekly show.
Welcome back to Small Business Hour, the show where founders talk money, mistakes and everything in between.
Virgil
Male · Middle-Aged · Multilingual
Refund confirmation call
Style: Speak in English with a gentle Irish accent, reassuring a customer about a refund.
Thanks for calling. Your refund has been processed and should reach your account within five working days.
What people narrate with English AI voices
English buyers range from indie authors in the US and UK to L&D teams in Canada and contact centres in Ireland. These six jobs come up most often.
Fiction and nonfiction audiobooks
Import the manuscript, pick one narrator for the whole book, and give dialogue or tense scenes their own direction.
Chapter Seven. Nobody in Harrow Street ever locked their doors, until that winter.
English audiobook productionCoding and skills courses
Lesson audio paced for learners, with code terms checked in the preview and updated a module at a time.
A variable stores a value so you can reuse it later in your code.
Voicing English coding lessonsQuick-fix explainer videos
Short hooks and full scripts read in the same voice every week, so the channel sounds consistent.
Most people store their passwords wrong. Here's the fix in under a minute.
English voiceover for quick-fix YouTube videosPhone menus and support lines
Routing prompts and hold messages, exported one file per prompt and re-recorded only when a menu option changes.
For billing questions, press two. To speak to someone now, press zero.
Support line prompts in EnglishFinance and policy training
Expense, security, and compliance modules with a steady trainer voice that stays the same year to year.
Before you approve an expense, check the receipt date matches the trip.
Expense policy narration for L&D teamsRadio and social ads
Short spots read with the accent of the market they run in, such as an Australian read for an Australian campaign.
Sign up this week and your first month is on us.
English ad reads by marketAn invoicing walkthrough with a US and a UK narrator
Two narrators share a short SaaS walkthrough. When the interface changes, you rewrite the block for that screen and leave the rest alone.
01Opal
Style: Speak in American English, friendly and brisk, welcoming a new customer.
Welcome to your new dashboard. In the next two minutes, you'll send your first invoice.
02Clark
Style: Read in British English, calm and precise, describing each click.
Open the Invoices tab, pick a client, and the tax rate fills in for you.
03Opal
Style: Speak in American English with a light, encouraging finish.
That's it. If you get stuck, our support team replies within one business day.
Renamed a tab? Regenerate that block only
If the Invoices tab gets renamed, edit the middle block and regenerate it. The welcome and the sign-off stay as they were.
Direction in a sentence, tags for moments
Describe the accent and tone in plain words, then drop a tag such as [softly] or [excited] before the words where the mood should shift.
Script a US and UK invoicing walkthrough in StudioLock in product terms with Enbee V1
Enbee V1 voices can save how your product name or an acronym is pronounced, and give you speed and pause controls.
Three starting points for English narration
Most English projects start in one of three places, depending on whether you are voicing a video, a book, or your own recurring voice.
Studio for walkthroughs and two-host episodes
Write the script as blocks, give a host and a guest different narrators, and regenerate any block after an edit. Export a full episode or a file per block.
Put a host and a guest on separate English blocksManuscripts from indie authors, in the Audiobook Creator
Upload EPUB, PDF, or DOCX, review the chapter breaks, and fix a single paragraph without regenerating the chapter. Files are ready for your own mastering and distribution steps; retailer approval is not guaranteed.
Upload an English novel for chapter narrationA clone for the author note or the founder update
Founders and authors can clone their own voice, or a voice they have permission to use, from a short sample, then let it read release notes or a preface.
Clone an author or founder voiceThe free plan covers 1,000 words with no credit card, and its exports carry a watermark. Paid plans give you more words, clean exports, and the right to use the audio commercially. View English narration plans
Technical terms, versions, and acronyms in English sentences
Release notes and engineering tutorials pack code names, version numbers, and time zones into ordinary sentences. Here is how one deployment reminder breaks down.
A deployment reminder from a release-notes video
Style: Speak in English like an engineer giving a clear release update
Deploy v2.3 to AWS us-east-1 before 5 p.m. PST
What the narrator has to get right
- Plain English words
- Deploy, to, before
- Service and region code
- AWS us-east-1
- Version number
- v2.3
- Time with time zone
- 5 p.m. PST
Dates, money, and clock times in English
Some strings read differently depending on the accent and country. Spell them out when it matters which reading the listener hears.
| You write | The narrator says | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 03/04/2026 | US: March fourth / UK: the third of April | Same string, two dates |
| $1,299.99 | one thousand two hundred ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents | Full read; shorten it in the script for an ad |
| £4.50 | four pounds fifty | Everyday UK style |
| 14:30 | half past two, or two thirty p.m. | 24-hour clock in UK timetables |
Accent and formatting notes for English scripts
The same English text can sound American, British, or Australian. A few spellings and formats change what listeners hear, so settle them before you generate.
Whether the r is heard
car park
US English sounds the r in "car park"; Southern British and Australian English drop it, while Irish and Scottish speech keep it. Name the accent in the direction and listen to a short block first.
The bath vowel
bath, can’t, cat
Southern British and Australian speakers use a long vowel in "bath" and "can’t", while US speakers use the vowel of "cat". It is one of the quickest ways to hear whether the accent you asked for came through.
Write dates out in words
03/04/2026
In the US this is March 4; in the UK and Australia it is 3 April. Writing "4 March 2026" or "March 4, 2026" removes the guesswork for every listener.
Zee or zed
Z, schedule
Americans say "zee" and most of the UK, Australia, and Ireland say "zed". Words like "schedule" also differ. Keep spelled-out letters consistent with the accent you chose.
Acronyms and version numbers
SQL, GIF, v2.3, us-east-1
Some teams say "sequel", others spell out S-Q-L. Version numbers and region codes can be read several ways too. Check them in the preview, and save the reading you want with an Enbee V1 voice if it recurs.
Take an English script into other languages
English courses, demos, and books are often voiced next in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, or Hindi. Or browse all 80+ text to speech languages.
Guides for English narration
Natural-sounding audiobooks, indie publishing, product demos, and course voices.
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How to Make an Audiobook Sound Natural With AI
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Aug 5, 2025
How Indie Authors Are Scaling Global Audiobook Distribution With Narration Box
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Jul 16, 2025
AI Voice tool to make multilingual product demos
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Jul 3, 2025
AI Voice for educational content: Male and Female in 2025
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Customer testimonials
See why creators, publishers, and teams rely on Narration Box for natural-sounding voice content.
“Quality of voices and ease of use made Narration Box the perfect choice for my fiction podcast The Program. It's the only voice synthesis service that knew the difference between 'live frugally' and 'live broadcast' and that could pronounce Mar-a-Lago.”
Ivan
Creator, The program audio series
“We've been using Narration Box for a while now, and are grateful to the team behind it! It allows us to create audio versions of our books and articles in many languages, within seconds. The generated audio sounds very natural and is almost indistinguishable from a real narrator. What an amazing service for creators, and it keeps evolving! I highly recommend it.”
Reto Stuber
CEO, Stuber Media
“The user-interface is great. Nice and simple without too many bells and whistles. The array of voices are also good, though some are definitely better than others. With that said, you can adjust the speaking pace for each voice, which does improve the flow, making voices seem less artificial. Also, the free plan is generous.”
Tom W.
Filmmaker
Review on G2
“Narration Box has allowed me to get away from having to set up my own recording studio. Previously, I had an idea of hiring a human narrator but there was so much hassle as well as costs. The voice choices are pretty good, especially the enhanced voices. I love the options available to further personalize the AI narrator's speech within the text. Narration Box saved me so much time for several small projects. I actually made audio clips whilst writing another book.”
Aammton Alias
M Content Creations
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Questions on accents, dates, acronyms, long-form narration, and exports in English.
English text to speech
Does English narration cost anything to try?
Yes. You get 1,000 words on the free plan and no credit card is asked for. Free exports are watermarked; paid plans remove the watermark and raise the word limit.
Which voices read English, and in which accents?
Narration Box includes 1,500+ AI voices across 80+ languages, and that covers Enbee V1 voices made for English. The samples above use our 21 Enbee V2 narrators (12 female, 9 male), each of which reads English and changes accent or mood when you write it in the direction.
Can I get a British, Australian, or Irish accent?
Ask for it in the style instruction, for example "Read in British English". Narrators follow accent instructions, but results differ from one narrator to another, so listen to a short block first before voicing a long script.
How do I make sure dates are read correctly?
Write them in words. "03/04/2026" can be March 4 or 3 April depending on the listener, so "4 March 2026" or "March 4, 2026" is safer.
Will it pronounce acronyms and product names right?
Common terms usually come out fine, but terms like SQL or GIF have more than one accepted reading. Check them in the preview. For names you repeat, an Enbee V1 voice can save the pronunciation.
Can it read long English text aloud, like a full book?
Yes. Use the Audiobook Creator: it imports the file, splits it into chapters, and lets you regenerate single paragraphs. It prepares audio for distribution, but approval by any retailer is not guaranteed.
Can an author use a clone of their own voice for bonus chapters?
Yes, if the voice is theirs or they have the owner’s permission. A short sample is enough to create the clone, which then sits next to stock narrators and can take any chapter or block.
Can I sell courses and run ads with the exported English audio?
Paid plans include commercial rights under the subscription terms, so ads and paid courses are covered. Download MP3, WAV, Opus, FLAC, or OGG, as a single master or block by block.
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