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Languages & voices
German text to speech voices
10 ReadSpeaker text to speech voices in German (de-DE): 5 female and 5 male, from 4 voice providers.
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10 voices in German
7 neural voices in German
4 voice providers for German
The catalogue
German voices
Listen to every German voice before you choose one. All 10 speak the same German sample sentence.
Technical details of every German voice
| Voice | Gender | Technology | Provider | Available in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna | Female | - | Nuance | Cloud |
| Emil | Male | Neural premium | ReadSpeaker-Premium | Licensing |
| Hans | Male | - | Ivona | Cloud |
| Heike | Female | Neural premium | ReadSpeaker-Premium | Cloud, Licensing |
| Klara | Female | Neural premium | ReadSpeaker-Premium | Cloud, Licensing |
| Lena | Female | Neural premium | ReadSpeaker-Premium | Cloud, Licensing |
| Marius | Male | Neural premium | ReadSpeaker-Premium | Cloud, Licensing |
| Marlene | Female | - | Ivona | Cloud |
| Max | Male | Neural premium | ReadSpeaker-Premium | Cloud, Licensing |
| Tim | Male | Neural | VoiceText | Cloud, Licensing |
Cloud voices are available in ReadSpeaker’s online products; Licensing voices are available for on-premises and embedded deployments.
133 million
German speakers worldwide.
Every one of them is a potential listener. ReadSpeaker gives your content a German voice, in the German they hear every day, on the web, in your documents, in your apps and on your devices.
Source
- Wikipedia. ISO 639:deu. Retrieved 2026-08-26. Open the source
Use cases
What German voices are used for
Three of the places a German voice goes to work. Each one is read here by a different voice, drawn from the 10 German voices in the catalogue.
Transportation
Train announcement
Achtung bitte. Wegen einer Gleisänderung fährt der nächste Zug nach Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof von Gleis 2 statt Gleis 3 ab.
Transportation
Subway station
Der nächste Zug auf Gleis 2 ist die U6 Richtung Marienplatz. Bitte achten Sie auf den Spalt zwischen Zug und Bahnsteigkante.
Sample
What you hear in German
Hallo, mein Name ist Anna, Ich bin eine der Stimmen, mit der Sie Ihre Webseite sprechen lassen können. Wenn ich Ihren Text lese, klingt es so.Custom Voice
A German voice that is yours alone
Klara speaks German for everyone. A Custom Voice speaks it only for you: your own speaker, your own sound, trained into a voice no competitor can use.
Your speaker
We record a German speaker you choose, or work from recordings you already own.
Your sound
The way your speaker says German is kept, not smoothed into a neutral read.
Your products
The finished voice is delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.
The whole catalogue
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German is one of the languages and accents ReadSpeaker speaks. Turn the globe, pick a pin, hear the voice.
FAQ
German text to speech, answered
ReadSpeaker offers 10 German text to speech voices, 5 female and 5 male. Every German voice speaks German (de-DE), and each one can be played on this page before you choose.
133 million German speakers worldwide, according to ISO 639:deu on Wikipedia. German text to speech lets you reach them in German, the language they hear every day.
7 German voices use neural synthesis: Emil, Heike, Klara, Lena, Marius, Max and Tim. Neural voices model intonation across the whole sentence, which is what makes a German reading sound spoken rather than assembled.
Yes. Of the 10 German voices, 9 in ReadSpeaker's online products and 7 for on-premises and embedded deployments. Licensed German voices run inside your own infrastructure, so no text ever leaves it.
The German catalogue is built with 4 voice providers: Ivona, Nuance, ReadSpeaker-Premium and VoiceText. ReadSpeaker selects and tunes each German voice, and serves them all through one interface.
Yes. ReadSpeaker Custom Voice builds a German voice that belongs to your brand alone, trained on a speaker you choose, speaking the same German you hear from Klara on this page. It is then delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.