Accessibility
Screen reader
Aðalleiðsöguvalmynd. Heim, hlekkur. Vörur, undirvalmynd með 5 atriðum. Um okkur, hlekkur. Hafa samband, hlekkur. Leitarhnappur. Þú ert nú á heimasíðunni.
Languages & voices
Icelandic text to speech voices
3 ReadSpeaker text to speech voices in Icelandic (is-IS): 2 female and 1 male, from 2 voice providers.
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3 voices in Icelandic
1 neural voice in Icelandic
2 voice providers for Icelandic
The catalogue
Icelandic voices
Listen to every Icelandic voice before you choose one. All 3 speak the same Icelandic sample sentence.
Technical details of every Icelandic voice
| Voice | Gender | Technology | Provider | Available in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dora | Female | - | Ivona | Cloud |
| Hildur | Female | Neural | VoiceText-DNN | Cloud, Licensing |
| Karl | Male | - | Ivona | Cloud |
Cloud voices are available in ReadSpeaker’s online products; Licensing voices are available for on-premises and embedded deployments.
330000
Icelandic speakers worldwide.
Every one of them is a potential listener. ReadSpeaker gives your content a Icelandic voice, in the Icelandic they hear every day, on the web, in your documents, in your apps and on your devices.
Source
- Wikipedia. Icelandic language. Retrieved 2026-08-26. Open the source
Use cases
What Icelandic voices are used for
Three of the places an Icelandic voice goes to work. Each one is read here by a different voice, drawn from the 3 Icelandic voices in the catalogue.
Publishing
Podcast intro
Velkomin í Tech Talk, hlaðvarpið þar sem við könnun nýjustu nýjungarnar sem móta stafræna heiminn okkar. Ég er þinn gestgjafi og í dag köfum við ofan í gervigreind.
Transportation
Train announcement
Athugið. Vegna breytinga á brautum fer næsta lest til Reykjavíkur frá braut 2 í stað brautar 3.
Sample
What you hear in Icelandic
Hæ. Ég er ein af þeim röddum sem þú getur notað til að láta vefinn þinn tala. Þegar ég les þinn texta, hljómar hann svona.Custom Voice
An Icelandic voice that is yours alone
Karl speaks Icelandic 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 an Icelandic speaker you choose, or work from recordings you already own.
Your sound
The way your speaker says Icelandic 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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Icelandic is one of the languages and accents ReadSpeaker speaks. Turn the globe, pick a pin, hear the voice.
FAQ
Icelandic text to speech, answered
ReadSpeaker offers 3 Icelandic text to speech voices, 2 female and 1 male. Every Icelandic voice speaks Icelandic (is-IS), and each one can be played on this page before you choose.
330000 Icelandic speakers worldwide, according to Icelandic language on Wikipedia. Icelandic text to speech lets you reach them in Icelandic, the language they hear every day.
1 Icelandic voice use neural synthesis: Hildur. Neural voices model intonation across the whole sentence, which is what makes a Icelandic reading sound spoken rather than assembled.
Yes. Of the 3 Icelandic voices, 3 in ReadSpeaker's online products and 1 for on-premises and embedded deployments. Licensed Icelandic voices run inside your own infrastructure, so no text ever leaves it.
The Icelandic catalogue is built with 2 voice providers: Ivona and VoiceText-DNN. ReadSpeaker selects and tunes each Icelandic voice, and serves them all through one interface.
Yes. ReadSpeaker Custom Voice builds a Icelandic voice that belongs to your brand alone, trained on a speaker you choose, speaking the same Icelandic you hear from Karl on this page. It is then delivered through the same products as every catalogue voice.